(Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images via AFP)A total of 32 Cuban nationals were killed during the US attack on Caracas that culminated in the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, the government in Havana said Sunday. “As a result of the criminal attack carried out by the government of the United States” against Venezuela, “32 Cubans lost their lives in combat operations,” the Cuban government said in a statement read on national television. In a stunning US military operation Saturday, Maduro was extracted from Caracas along with his wife, Cilia Flores, to face charges of drug trafficking and terrorism in a New York court Monday. Havana has declared two days of national mourning beginning at dawn Monday, and pledged to organise tributes. “Honor and glory to the brave Cuban fighters who fell facing terrorists in imperial uniform,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel wrote on X.AFP

Source: Punch January 05, 2026 09:49 UTC