{"id":305987,"date":"2026-02-28T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305987\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:01:09","slug":"president-donald-trump-says-us-is-discussing-a-friendly-takeover-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305987\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump says US is discussing a \u2018friendly takeover\u2019 of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the Cuban coastguard said it had killed four people and wounded six others aboard a US-registered speedboat that it said were armed and seeking to infiltrate the country.<\/p>\n

Havana said all those on board the US boat were Cubans living in the United States, which has received several waves of emigration from the island since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed only that one US citizen was killed and another wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n

Cuban authorities said a coastguard vessel came under fire from the speedboat around one nautical mile from Cuba\u2019s north shore, adding that assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails and military-style gear were found onboard.<\/p>\n

The response from the United States Government was muted.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was on a Caribbean visit, said Washington was conducting its own investigation and would \u201crespond accordingly\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, the Cuban coastguard said it had killed four people and wounded six others aboard a US-registered speedboat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,5432,167315,28277,13487,2178,53840,136217,42,2959,185,107147,43,95231,1118,2572,312,132127,2215,26592,10115,1865,40,38,41,167316,39,2179,3040,107149,2988,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-305987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-between","10":"tag-communistled","11":"tag-cuba","12":"tag-discussing","13":"tag-donald","14":"tag-friendly","15":"tag-havana","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-high","18":"tag-is","19":"tag-maduro","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nicolas","22":"tag-of","23":"tag-president","24":"tag-says","25":"tag-strongman","26":"tag-suggested","27":"tag-takeover","28":"tag-tensions","29":"tag-today","30":"tag-top-news","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-topnews","33":"tag-toppling","34":"tag-topstories","35":"tag-trump","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-venezuelan","38":"tag-washington","39":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}