Posted on 01/05/2026 7:06:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Key Points
The Cubans were performing missions on behalf of the Cuban Armed Forces and interior ministry, the country’s presidential office said.
Cuba called the U.S. strikes a “criminal act of aggression and state terrorism,” and said the government will pay tribute to the dead.
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Cuba announced on Monday that 32 of its citizens were killed in combat during the U.S. raid on Venezuela.
The raid on Saturday, which saw U.S. forces arrest and extract Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to New York, reportedly saw a large part of his security team killed.
The Cubans were performing missions on behalf of the Cuban Armed Forces and interior ministry, the country’s presidential office said on Facebook.
“Faithful to their responsibilities with security and defense, our compatriots fulfilled their duty with dignity and heroically and fell, after ferocious resistance, into direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombings of the facilities,” the statement said, according to a translation by Facebook.
Cuba also called the U.S. strikes a “criminal act of aggression and state terrorism,” and said the Cuban government will pay tribute to the dead.
The U.S. strikes came after weeks of military buildup in the region and threats by U.S. President Donald Trump against Maduro.
After the raid, Trump said that the U.S. was going to “run” Venezuela, “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will use leverage gained from its oil blockade on the country and regional military buildup to achieve its policy aims.
“We want Venezuela to move in a certain direction,” Rubio told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker.
Seperately, Rubio said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that as the U.S. has a “quaratine” on Venezuelan oil.
“That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interests of the Venezuelan people are met, and that’s what we intend to do,” he added.
The U.S. in recent months has seized tankers associated with the country and moved military ships and warplanes into the Caribbean.
— CNBC’s Garrett Downs contributed to this report.
Citizens or Maduro military/supporters?
Will the Cuban government move to Russia or China ?
Meh.
Probably DGI
Apparently, it is risky to be a citizen of Cuba, ... in Venezuela.
KGB/FSB trained DGI thugs, probably with orders to off Maduro if he was going to be captured, to create an Allende style martyr and prevent the compromise of secrets.
Looks like they weren’t trained well enough and Delta is just that good.
Reported by Vietnamouse reporter, Him Hoo Lie.
This is interesting. I was wondering how many we killed in the raid to get Maduro. It appears that Maduro didn’t trust his countrymen much, as his security seems to be all Cuban.
Beat me to it by that much, lol.
I, for some reason, can’t get upset about this headline.
I suppose Cubans were leading Maduro’s intel and security service.
If true, I imagine some Venezuelans around Maduro were not too happy about having foreign spies and foreign military people watching them all the time and making decisions
After having nasty Cubans around for a couple decades, if you were a Venezuelan patriot in the military or civil government, you might not even mind taking one’s chances with some more benevolent Americans instead.....
> Citizens or Maduro military/supporters? <
Or mercenaries.
‘Advisors’...................
Notice how ‘officers’ morphed into ‘citizens’...............
Russia, they have more experience with them.................
There. Fixed it.
So what?
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