Miguel Diaz-Canel with Cuban President Raoul Castro. Foto Desmond Boylan/Reuters/Público
Daily Mail: 'A grinding noise that felt like walking through an invisible wall': First descriptions of sonic attacks on 21 US diplomats emerge as Cuba says it is baffled by the mystery illness which causes hearing and speech problems
* Fresh details emerge in the mysterious attacks on at least 21 US victims in Cuba
* First descriptions of the 'grinding' noise heard by American diplomat in bed
* Some victims said the noise was confined to specific parts of rooms
* First revelation of attack on American in a Cuban hotel, outside diplomatic post
* Cuba denies involvement as victims suffer concussions and hearing loss
* Leader Raul Castro expressed concern and invited FBI to Cuba to investigate
The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel.
He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again.
It was as if he'd walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.
Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 US victims in an astonishing international mystery illness still unfolding in Cuba.
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Update: Raul Castro's surprising response to harmed US diplomats (AP).
WNU Editor: If the reports that Castro now wants the U.S. to investigate these "sonic attacks" are true .... I will be surprised. Not about the attacks and inviting the FBI into his country .... but Raoul Castro not knowing what is happening. Cuba is a Communist state .... everything and everyone is watched and under surveillance .... especially foreign compounds like the U.S. Embassy. If Castro is out of the loop .... it makes me wonder on what is exactly happening in that country, and are those who are preparing replace him are already asserting that power. Many questions .... no answers .... not something that I am sure Raoul Castro wants to be happening now as he prepares to retire from public life.
Update #2: The loss of the U.S. embassy will be a huge financial hit on Cuba .... the tourism and money transfers alone amounts to billions per year for Cuba .... Five GOP senators ask Tillerson to close Cuba embassy after attacks on diplomats (CBS).
