Stories from Havana, Havana, Cuba

Havana Syndrome: real symptoms, disputed origins

Since 2016, diplomats and relatives have reported sudden episodes of pressure, sounds, and vertigo. Studies, investigations, and official assessments diverged; the withdrawal of two intelligence reports in 2026 reopened the dispute without settling the cause.

293 km · Península de Guanahacabibes

Cuba’s “sunken city”: what sonar found off Guanahacabibes

A shipwreck survey revealed geometric shapes as deep as 750 metres. Sonar, a small underwater robot and an unsampled plate fed the lost-city theory, but the evidence does not yet establish a city.

368 km · Miami

Roberto Wagner Fernandes: three women, two decades, and an identification after death

Florida investigators linked Roberto Wagner Fernandes by DNA to the killings of Kimberly Dietz-Livesey, Sia Demas and Jessica Good in 2000-2001. The trail runs through the Brazilian trial over Danyelle Bouças Fernandes’s death, an exhumation, and suspicions about other crimes that remain unproven.

1,161 km · Chisec

Alejandra Icó Chub: femicide, a viral video, and justice in Chisec

The Maya Q’eqchi’ woman killed in Alta Verapaz in 2018 became known online as “Miss PacMan” because of footage her family asked people not to share. This dossier restores her name and examines prior abuse, the 2023 sentence, and reparations without reproducing the images.