{"id":353093,"date":"2026-01-05T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:27:07","slug":"thirty-two-cubans-killed-during-us-attack-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353093\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-two Cubans killed during US attack on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Cuba as a &#8220;disaster&#8221; run by &#8220;incompetent, senile men&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I lived in Havana, and I was in the government, I&#8217;d be concerned &#8211; at least a little bit,&#8221; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24468drd1o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump signed a memorandum imposing tighter restrictions on Cuba<\/a>, reversing moves by his predecessor Joe Biden easing pressure on the Caribbean island nation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The White House said it would end &#8220;economic practices that disproportionately benefit the Cuban government, military, intelligence, or security agencies at the expense of the Cuban people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also said existing restrictions on Americans visiting Cuba would be more stringently enforced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his first term as president, Trump took a similar approach to Cuba, implementing a raft of additional sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His administration has continued an economic embargo on Cuba, despite calls by international organisations including the United Nations to end it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blockade was initially imposed in 1962 and has been in place ever since. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Cuba as a &#8220;disaster&#8221; run by &#8220;incompetent, senile men&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-353093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}