APTOPIX Cuba US Venezuela
Workers fly the Cuban flag at half-staff at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune near the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in memory of Cubans who died two days before in Caracas, Venezuela during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces.
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Cubans have lowered flags to mourn 32 officers who died in the weekend strike against the president of Venezuela. Venezuelan oil has kept Cuba's economy limping along for years. Many in Cuba on Monday were questioning what the U.S. operation will mean for Cuba, Venezuela’s closest ally. The nations are so close that Cubans often were Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's bodyguards. Many say Cuba, an island of about 10 million people, exerted a remarkable degree of influence over the oil-rich country with three times as many people. Cubans, tormented by constant blackouts and shortages of basic foods, woke to the once-unimaginable possibility of an even grimmer future.
After apparent months of planning, the U.S. strike that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan…
HAVANA (AP) — The names, ranks and ages of the 32 Cuban military personnel killed during the…
