The US does not believe that Cuba is involved in sonic attacks

The United States does not believe that Cuba is behind the sonic attacks perpetrated against officials of the US embassy in Havana, according to sources related to the investigation as a result of these unprecedented events that have threatened to turn the screw on the incipient relations. diplomatic relations between both countries.

Shortly before the meeting that the American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held this Tuesday with Bruno Rodríguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, the White House indicated that “Nobody believes that the Cubans are responsible”. All the evidence indicates that they are not,” said the US agency AP.

In the highest-level meeting held between Cuba and the United States after Donald Trump came to power, Tillerson met with the Cuban Foreign Minister to especially discuss the attacks against American diplomats on Cuban soil.

The conversations, at the request of the Cuban authorities, took place at the State Department.

The health problems caused to 21 North American diplomats and five Canadians by these sonic attacks, the causes of which are so far unknown, have led the Trump government to seriously consider closing the embassy in Havana, reopened in 2015 under the climate of détente. between both governments after the reestablishment of diplomatic relations promoted by Barack Obama.

The investigation into these strange events has led the Cuban and American security services to continue working together to clear up this enigma that has caused an escalation in tensions between both countries, whose relations have returned to the climate of the Cold War with the Trump's arrival at the White House.

Raúl Castro himself denied the involvement of the Cuban security forces in these attacks during a meeting with the head of US diplomacy in Cuba, Jeffrey DeLaurentis.

Cuban intelligence is collaborating closely with the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who sent several of their members to the Caribbean nation to carry out the investigation into these mysterious sonic attacks that occurred between November 2016 and the first months of 2017 in the residences of American and Canadian officials, and at the Capri hotel in Havana.