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These Americans suffered severe neurological disorders in Cuba. Now they have a lawyer.

June 20, 2018

Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald
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Several U.S victims of alleged "health attacks" in Cuba have hired a lawyer out of concern over how the U.S. government will handle their long-term medical treatment.

"That's not at all clear," said lawyer Mark Zaid, who represents eight of the at least 24 U.S. diplomats, intelligence officers and relatives affected by the incidents in Havana. "Some already had to spend their own money" on treatment, he added, mostly because of State Department bureaucratic regulations, presumably designed to save money.

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