Cuba said 32 of its citizens—described as members of its armed forces and intelligence services—were killed during Saturday’s U.S. military operation in Venezuela.
According to Reuters, these were killed during a U.S. military operation against Venezuela that yielded the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
In a statement broadcast on Cuban national television, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated that the Cuban troops had been sent on a mission requested by the Venezuelan government at the time, although the nature of their assignment had not been specified by the Cuban government, according to The Associated Press.
Additionally, the Cuban government decreed a couple of days of national mourning from 6 a.m. Jan. 5 to midnight Jan. 6, with flags to fly at half-staff and the postponement of all public festivities, according to Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that many Cubans had been killed, but there had been no deaths from the U.S. Maduro is currently under incarceration at a New York detention center, with plans to appear in a New York courtroom Monday for a charge of drug trafficking conspiracy, which he has denied.
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