Cuban government claims that military personnel were carrying out official missions in the allied country and declares two days of national mourning after the operation that captured Nicolás Maduro
No total, 32 died during the attack by American forces that culminated in the capture of the president already the island’s government reported on Sunday.
“As a result of the criminal attack perpetrated by the government of against the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (…) 32 Cubans lost their lives in combat actions,” the government said in a statement read on national television.
He admitted that the military, all members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces or the Ministry of the Interior, carried out missions in Venezuela “at the request of counterpart bodies” from that country, a strong ally of the island.
Maduro was removed from the country on Saturday along with his wife, Cilia Flores, in a United States military operation, where he is accused of drug trafficking and terrorism. This Monday he should be presented to a New York judge on charges of drug trafficking and terrorism.
The official statement highlighted that the Cuban military “fulfilled their duty in a dignified and heroic manner and fell, after fierce resistance, in direct combat against the aggressors or as a result of the bombing of the installations.”
The government declared two days of national mourning from dawn this Monday and announced that “it will organize the corresponding actions to pay them the deserved tribute”.
“Honor and glory to the brave Cuban fighters who fell facing terrorists in imperial uniform,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote in the X.
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*With AFP
