Monday, January 5, 2026 - A total of 32 Cuban nationals were k!lled during the US
attack on Caracas that culminated in the capture of Venezuela’s president,
Nicolas Maduro, the government in Havana said Sunday, Jan. 4.
“As a result of the criminal attack carried out by the government of the
United States” against Venezuela, “32 Cubans lost their lives in combat
operations,” the Cuban government said in a statement read on national
television.
The deceased were members of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces or the
Ministry of the Interior who were carrying out missions “at the request of
counterpart agencies,” Cuban officials said.
In a stunning US military operation Saturday, Jan. 3, Maduro was extracted
from Caracas along with his wife, Cilia Flores, to face charges of drug
trafficking and terrorism in a New York court Monday.
The official Cuban statement stressed that the soldiers had “fulfilled
their duty with dignity and heroism and fell, after fierce resistance, in
direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombings” carried out
by the United States.
Havana has declared two days of national mourning beginning at dawn
Monday, Jan. 5, and pledged to organize tributes.
“Honor
and glory to the brave Cuban fighters who fell facing terrorists in imperial
uniform,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel wrote on X.
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