Cuba identifies 32 military personnel killed in US operation against Maduro regime in Venezuela

Cuba's authoritative mouthpiece for its ruling communist enactment confirmed Tuesday that 32 members of its equipped forces were killed during the U.S. subject cognition to seizure erstwhile Venezuelan person Nicolas Maduro. 

The 32 subject and constabulary officers were portion of a ngo carried retired astatine the petition of Venezuela’s government, according to a authorities statement. On Tuesday, Cuba released their names, ranks and ages. 

"Victims of a caller transgression enactment of aggression and authorities coercion perpetrated against the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the United States, 32 Cubans mislaid their lives successful combat actions and aft fierce resistance," a connection published by Granma, the authoritative paper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. "They were carrying retired missions representing the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, astatine the petition of counterpart bodies successful the South American country."

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Cubans clasp a Venezuelan nationalist emblem with a Cuban 1 during a gathering successful enactment of Venezuelan person Nicolas Maduro successful Havana connected Jan. 3 aft U.S. forces captured him.  (Adalberto Roque / AFP via Getty Images)

Cuba announced 2 days ofd mourning. 

Among the deceased were colonels, lieutenants, majors and captains, arsenic good arsenic immoderate reserve soldiers, ranging successful property from 26 to 60, The Associated Press reported. 

They belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, Cuba's 2 main information agencies. The work did not specify their missions oregon disclose however they died.

In a station connected X. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said that Cubans were "prepared to springiness their lives" against immoderate U.S. intervention.

"The U.S. president, showing implicit ignorance astir Cuba and repeating the docket of lies of Cuban-American politicians and different groups of interest, is blaspheming and threatening our people," Rodríguez wrote. "Our valiant people, existent to their past of struggle, volition support their federation against immoderate imperialist aggression."

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Workers alert the Cuban emblem astatine half-mast astatine the Anti-Imperialist Tribune adjacent the U.S. embassy successful Havana connected Monday successful representation of Cubans who died 2 days earlier successful Caracas, Venezuela during the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces.  (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

"In his words, with each intention, helium omits immoderate notation to his transgression argumentation of economical suffocation and warfare, which has been further tightened, against Cuba, which causes harm and desperation to Cuban families," helium added, seeming to notation to President Donald Trump. 

The Trump medication has said that Cuban officials were portion of Maduro's information detail. Cuba and Venezuela person grown adjacent successful caller years, with Cuban agents becoming a large beingness successful the South American nation. 

"You know, a batch of Cubans were killed yesterday," President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One connected Sunday night. "There was a batch of decease connected the different side. No decease connected our side."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the lad of Cuban immigrants and a fierce professional of Cuba's communist government, said Venezuela’s spy bureau was "basically afloat of Cubans."

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends a rally successful Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, successful solidarity with Venezuela aft the U.S. captured President Nicolas Maduro and flew him retired of Venezuela.  (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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"One of the biggest problems Venezuelans person is they person to state independency from Cuba," helium said during a quality league successful which officials revealed details of the subject cognition to seizure Maduro and his wife. "They tried to fundamentally colonize it from a information standpoint."