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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Cuba received remains of its soldiers killed in combat during a US attack on Venezuela, in a ceremony that pays tribute to the military.
Cuba began to bring a tribute, in the presence of revolutionary leader Raul Castro, the 32 Cuban soldiers killed at the beginning of January, during an operation of the US Special Forces that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, AFP.
In front of the line of the small coffins, covered by Cuban flags and accompanied by the photographs of the deceased, a couple of men hug each other and weep in dismay. Thousands of Cubans began from Thursday morning to fire the 32 soldiers who died during the United States attacks on Venezuela that culminated in the capture of the president of that country, Nicolás Maduro. After arriving around 7:00 local time (11:00 GMT) at the José Martí Inte…
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