The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has now recognized that "mysterious headaches and nausea” among U.S. diplomatic personnel, manipulatively described as the Havana syndrome, were not the result of an operation organized by foreign agents. This is no revelation, but rather very much a confirmation of the Cuban saying that lies have short legs, a truism for the agency.
The prefabricated "syndrome," is nothing more than a big fat lie to justify more hatred, more sanctions, no diplomatic relations, and other etcetera of the anti-Cuba rampage.
NBC News, The New York Times and other information monopolies were among those which magnified reports of "incidents" in the Cuban capital in 2016. The alleged victims, they reported, were U.S. and Canadian diplomats, although similar reports later appeared from their colleagues in other countries.
Prensa Latina reports that, according to authorities, the CIA investigation concluded that most of the 1,000 reported cases can be attributed to environmental causes, undiagnosed medical conditions or stress, rather than a global campaign mounted by a foreign power.
It sure took these eminent media outlets a long time to recognize the inconsistency of a fallacy which Cuban scientists denounced as political manipulation, based on an "event" without a single piece of scientific evidence.
It is worth remembering that, in October last year, a declassified U.S. State Department document ruled out the theory that microwave or ultrasound rays caused the "syndrome," noting that most probable cause was the chirping of crickets.
As a lie in the end, not a single one of the alleged causes could be proven. But the impact of the incident on the Cuban people has been severe. The suspension of consular services in Havana forced family members interested in traveling to the United States to seek visas in third countries, obliged to make the trip without even knowing if their application would be accepted. The brouhaha has only served to justify the absurd U.S. hostility toward Cuba.
That which was once labeled as a syndrome, is no longer. But this is no problem for the U.S. government. A foreign policy based on lies has never been cause for shame.
