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The Cuban government has announced the death of 32 \u2060of its \u200bcitizens during the raids by the United States military to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.<\/p>\n
Havana said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on \u200cJanuary 5 and \u200c6 in \u2060honour of those killed and that \u200cfuneral arrangements would be announced.<\/p>\n
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The state-run Prensa Latina agency said the Cuban \u201cfighters\u201d were killed while \u201ccarrying out missions\u201d on behalf of the country\u2019s military, at the request of the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n
The agency said the slain Cubans \u201cfell in direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombing of the facilities\u201d after offering \u201cfierce resistance\u201d.<\/p>\n
The statement from Havana marked the first official acknowledgment of the deaths.\u00a0Cuba is a close ally of Venezuela\u2019s government has sent military and police forces to assist in operations in the Latin American country for years.<\/p>\n
Following the US operation on Saturday, Maduro and his wife were flown to New York to face prosecution on drug related charges. The Venezuelan leader is due to appear in a court in the US city on Monday.<\/p>\n
Maduro has denied criminal involvement.<\/p>\n
Images of the 63-year-old president blindfolded and handcuffed by US forces stunned Venezuelans. The operation was Washington\u2019s most controversial intervention in Latin America since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago.<\/p>\n
Venezuelan Defense Minister General Vladimir Padrino said on state television the US attack killed soldiers, civilians and a \u201clarge part\u201d of Maduro\u2019s security detail \u201cin cold blood\u201d.<\/p>\n
Venezuela\u2019s armed forces have been activated to guarantee sovereignty, he said.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, said that \u201cthere was a lot of death on the other side\u201d during the US raids in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
He said \u201ca lot of Cubans\u201d were killed and that there was \u201cno death on our side\u201d.<\/p>\n
The US leader went on to threaten Colombia\u2019s President Gustavo Petro, saying an American military operation in the Latin American country sounded good to him.<\/p>\n
But he added that a US military intervention in Cuba is unlikely because the country appears to be ready to fall on its own.<\/p>\n
\u201cCuba is ready to fall. Cuba, looks like it\u2019s ready to fall. I don\u2019t know how they , if they can hold that, but Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not getting any of it. Cuba literally is ready to fall. And you have a lot of great Cuban Americans that are going to be very happy about this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US\u2019s operation to capture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,3668,451,3140,3,452,453,21,1209,18232],"class_list":["post-388437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cuba","tag-headlines","tag-latin-america","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}