US EditionDeadly shooting in Cuban waters highlights obsessions with counter-revolution as US pressure mounts
Cuban soldiers killed four after speedboat occupants fired first; authorities found assault rifles, explosives and combat gear on the Florida-registered vessel, Cuba's government said.
- Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people and troops returned fire, killing four, Cuba's government says, spotlighting Cubans living in the U.S. with counter-revolutionary aims.
- Amid rising bilateral tensions, Michel Ortega Casanova was driven by an obsessive desire to change Cuba, his brother said, as the U.S. administration under President Donald Trump tightens the embargo.
- Authorities who boarded the Florida-registered vessel said weapons and tactical gear found aboard included assault rifles, handguns, homemade explosives, bulletproof vests, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms, while Cuban authorities named Amijail Sánchez González and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez as wanted.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will gather its own information as Miami exile community and activists doubted Cuba's account, surprising families of those on the boat.
- Observers noted historical parallels as the vessel was reported stolen from the Florida Keys 140 miles southwest of Miami amid echoes of the Bay of Pigs and 1959 guerrilla landing.
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Deadly shooting in Cuban waters highlights obsessions with counter-revolution
A deadly encounter between Cuban troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates cast a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution.
Cuba and US Take Calm Approach to Investigating Deadly Boat Incident
A chaotic encounter between Cuban security forces and a boatful of men who had set out from Florida this week could have lit a fuse at a time of increased tension between the US and Havana. Instead, calmer heads are prevailing, for now.
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Deadly shooting in Cuban waters highlights obsessions with counter-revolution as US pressure mounts
Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism.
Havana, February 26, 2026-Total News Agency-TNA- The shooting that left four dead after the interception of a Florida-registered speedboat in Cuban territorial waters opened a new chapter of tension with the United States and exposed, again, the distance between Havana’s official account and the doubts that emerge from Cuban exile in Miami. The Ministry of the Interior (MININT) claimed that it frustrated an “infiltration for terrorist purposes” …
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