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New Blow to US-Cuba Relations

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US Government Further Reduces Embassy Services in Havana

HAVANA TIMES – The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Friday the temporary suspension of its operations in Havana, a sign of the further deteriorating US-Cuba relations.

On their website the USCIS justifies their decision due to the staff reductions at the US Embassy in Havana, which took place in September after the Trump administration’s claim that around two dozen of its diplomats had fallen seriously ill due to alleged “sonic attacks” in Havana.

The US hasn’t directly accused Cuba for the attacks but holds the Castro government responsible for not preventing them in its territory.

The USCIS gave no date for a possible resumption of services and noted that “its field office in Mexico City will assume Havana’s jurisdiction.”

The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba.
  • Moses Patterson

    The Castros rejected the gestures of rapprochement from Obama. They didn’t know how good they had it. Cooling relations between the US and Cuba have no effect on Americans. But without the expected jump in US tourists coming to Cuba, the Cuban economy will continue to suffer.

    • garfield58

      Actually, don’t fool yourself, Canada ,Britain, and Germany make up 75% of the total tourists going to Cuba, they really don’t depend on the loud obnoxious American

    • dani

      I don’t know where you get the idea that the gestures of rapproachement from Obama were rejected. The change in policy was welcomed by the Cuban government and Obama was recieved with open arms in Havana. And remember agreements were signed by both sides. It’s true that there was some mutterings that Obama hadn’t gone further in regards to Guantanamo and Fidel Castro said that he still didn’t trust the US, but it was clearly stated that he was expressing his own personal view which didn’t reflect the government’s. However none of this amounts to rejection and what difference would it have made anyway. Obama wasn’t going to move any further and Trump was always going to roll back some of Obama’s changes.