US EditionRemains of 32 Cuban officers killed during strike on Venezuela repatriated as US threat lingers
The 32 Cuban soldiers killed during the U.S. raid in Venezuela were honored with military ceremonies and public viewings amid rising tensions with the U.S., officials said.
- On Jan. 15, 2026, Cuba received the remains of 32 Cuban soldiers killed during the U.S. attack that captured President Nicolás Maduro; urns draped in Cuban flags were transported through Havana with military honours overseen by President Miguel Díaz-Canel and former President Raúl Castro.
- Serving as protection officers, the dead were under protection agreements between Cuba and Venezuela, with some assigned to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan President's security detail, Havana said earlier this month.
- Interior Minister Lázaro Alberto Álvarez said the troops `fought to the last bullet`, and state TV showed wounded and urns placed for public respects; twenty-one were from the Interior Ministry, ages 26 to 67.
- Thousands lined Havana's boulevards for the motorcade and mass funeral, while Cuba vowed to resist U.S. pressure amid warnings that cuts to Venezuelan oil shipments could be catastrophic; a protest is planned Friday outside the U.S. embassy in Havana.
- Seen in historical context, analysts say this marks the largest Cuban combatant loss since Bay of Pigs , while the U.S. announced $3 million in aid that the Cuban Foreign Ministry called politically manipulative.
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On Thursday, the remains of the 32 Cuban military personnel killed in Venezuela arrived in Cuba on January 3 after the attacks by the United States that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Cuban authorities held a military ceremony at the José Martí International Airport in Havana, attended by Raúl Castro. This was the first public appearance of the dictator after Maduro’s capture. President Miguel Díaz-Canel, P…
On Friday, the leadership of the Cuban dictatorship will lead a demonstration in the Anti-imperialist Tribune, a square located in front of the Cuban embassy...
Cuban national television broadcasted live on Thursday morning the return of the remains of 32 of its citizens who died in the attacks carried out by the United States against Venezuela during the operation carried out in the early morning of January 3 to capture the deposed President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The remains arrived in boxes that were smaller than coffins and were wrapped in the Cuban flag. For years, Cuba has sent thousands of…
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