Where do you get this stuff? Government conspiracies? Intellectual blindness? What exactly are the US "tyrants" covering up off of the northwest coast of Cuba? If the sonar image that Paulina Zelitsky registered in 2001 does prove to be ancient ruins, why would the US government want to cover that up? So what? It could be 2,000 year old Mayan ruins that collapsed under a relatively recent catastrophic event. Would our lives be permanently destroyed because we learned this? What would the US government be shielding us from finding? Perhaps what that sonar image really uncovered was a toxic waste dump left over from the Cuba Missile Crisis back in 1962.
For one thing, Paulina Zelitsky's project is funded by the Cuban government. Her project has nothing to do with archaeology or lost civilizations. Paulina Zelitsky herself is not trained or educated in ancient cultures, civilizations or even ancient history. That is one reason why we should not take her opinions about her sonar image too seriously, at least for the time being. From what I recall she has been hired by the Cuban government to help them locate oil. The sonar image was from an area 2,200 meters under the water in what is, since the last time I checked, Cuban jurisdiction, not the US government's. This discovery has nothing to do with the US government, nor does the US government have any interest in it. If anyone is preventing Paulina Zelitsky from exploring this further it would be the Cuban government, and why not. They didn't hire her to go on an Indiana Jones mystery hunt.
Why don't we stop all of this useless hankering and try to apply some educated, well thought out, scientific principles to this recent discovery. Let's stop speculating as if it was the truth. Let's only use the facts and discuss what we know, not what we "believe". I think this discussion would be far more interesting (and believable) if we all stick to a less erratic approach.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road