Cuba Daily Life
A ferry crosses Havana Bay past the Nico Lopez oil refinery where a Cuban tanker is anchored in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.
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Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people as the vessel approached the island and opened fire on the troops, who fired back. That's according to the Cuban government, which says its soldiers killed four people and wounded six. The Cuban Ministry of the Interior said the people aboard the boat Wednesday were Cubans living in the U.S. and accused them of trying to infiltrate the country to engage in terrorism. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it was not a U.S. government operation. The confrontation has resulted in investigations in both Cuba and the United States and could add to tensions between the two countries.
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. The Cuban government says its troops exchanged gunfire with a Florida-registered speedboat of armed Cuban expatriates, killing four people and wounding six. The brother of a deceased passenger says freedom became an obsession for his sibling but that death still came as a surprise. Secretary of State Marco Rubio questions Cuba’s account and says the U.S. will gather its own facts. Some Miami exiles also raise doubts.
MIAMI (AP) — The top Justice Department prosecutor in Miami is considering criminal investig…
