The Cuban government statement gave few details, but said all the dead were members of the Cuban armed forces and intelligence agencies.
Cuba said on Sunday that 32 of its citizens had been killed in the U.S. attacks in Venezuela, including military or intelligence personnel -- a rare public signal of Cuba's importance to Venezuela and the Maduro government.
-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jan 5, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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... FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans ...
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Cuba is left reeling in the aftermath of the Venezuela strike
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... For months as the US military prepared to strike Venezuela, many Cubans have asked me a simple, if disconcerting, question: "Are we next?"
Following the devastating attacks on Venezuelan military bases and surgical apprehension of leader Nicols Maduro by US Special Forces, Cuba seems very much in the Trump administration's sights.
Maduro's capture is a seismic reversal of fortune for Cuba's communist-run government, which for decades has relied on massive aid packages from its oil-rich South American ally for the island's very survival.
At a protest Saturday in front of the US Embassy in Havana, a defiant Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel promised not to let the Cuba-Venezuela alliance go down without a fight.
"For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost," Diaz-Canel proclaimed.
But if anything, the Cubans I have spoken with since the strikes seemed shocked by how easy it seemed for the US military to snatch Maduro without any loss of US personnel. ...
*** President Nicolas Maduro's Dance Moves Were Last Straw for Dotard Trumpf ***
"Mr Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some of the Trumpf junta that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff. So the White House decided to follow through on its military threats."
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The Trumof junta was going after Nicolas Maduro no matter what. The vast array of military power deployed to the AOR, SOUTHCM CDR Adm Holsey's abrupt retirement, massive CIA/NSA/DIA/NRO surveillance of Maduro, and Delta Team rehearsals in mock ups are evidence of that.
USSOCOM told Dummkopf Trumpf when they were going in, based on weather, much like in 1944 when the field commanders told Ike the best time to land on Normandy (Operation Overlord AKA D-Day).
Maduro's dancing got Trumpf's panty hose in a bundle and hobgoblin Stephen Miller probably shrieked "Der Fuhrer vill not be mocked by this brown skin!"
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