US EditionRemains of 32 Cuban officers killed during strike on Venezuela repatriated as US threat lingers
Cuba held state military honors for 32 soldiers killed in a US raid on Venezuela, with thousands paying respects and protests planned at the US embassy, 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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Remains of 32 Cuban troops repatriated | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
HAVANA -- Trumpets and drums played solemnly at Havana's airport Thursday as white-gloved Cuban soldiers marched out of a plane carrying urns with remains of the 32 Cuban officers killed during a U.S. attack on Venezuela.
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