U.s. Tourist Fears He Was Hit In Cuba, Years Before Diplomats

JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press, The Columbian
Thu, 10/19/2017 - 9:41am

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Chris Allen’s phone started buzzing as word broke that invisible attacks in Cuba had hit a U.S. government worker at Havana’s Hotel Capri. Allen’s friends and family had heard an eerily similar story from him before. The tourist from South Carolina had cut short his trip to Cuba two years earlier after numbness spread through all four of his limbs within minutes of climbing into bed at the same hotel where the American government workers were housed.

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