Washington
claims its diplomats were "attacked" in Cuban hotels,
failing to provide specific examples.
Washington
has announced that the United States is removing about 60 percent of
government staff out of Cuba, the Associated Press reports, citing
“specific attacks” that allegedly harmed U.S. diplomats.
It claims
its diplomats were “attacked” in local hotels. Washington,
however, has not released specific information about the nature of
these so-called “attacks.”
The U.S.
government has also indefinitely suspended visa processing in Cuba,
warning its citizens that they could be “harmed” in Cuba.
The
remaining 40 percent of employees who will remain at the Havana
embassy are “emergency personnel.”
“The Cuban
government has never perpetrated nor will it ever perpetrate attacks
of any kind against diplomats,” Cuba said in a statement on
Thursday, when rumors of the embassy staff cut began swirling. “The
Cuban government has never permitted nor will it ever permit the use
of its territory by third parties for this purpose.”
U.S. State
Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson is “still reviewing his options on how best to protect
American personnel in Cuba,” CBS News reported.
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