The flags of Venezuela (left) and Cuba. The Cuban Government says 32 of its nationals were killed during the US attack on Caracas that ended in the capture of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Photo / Ringo Chiu, AFP
The flags of Venezuela (left) and Cuba. The Cuban Government says 32 of its nationals were killed during the US attack on Caracas that ended in the capture of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Photo / Ringo Chiu, 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 Monday.
“As a result of the criminal attack carried out by the Government of the United States” against Venezuela, “32 Cubanslost their lives in combat operations”, the Cuban Government said in a statement read on national television.
The dead were members of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces or the Ministry of the Interior who were carrying out missions “at the request of counterpart agencies”, Cuban officials said.
In a US military operation Saturday, Maduro was extracted from Caracas with his wife Cilia Flores to face charges of drug trafficking and terrorism in a New York court Monday.
The official Cuban statement said the soldiers had “fulfilled their duty with dignity and heroism and fell, after fierce resistance, in direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombings” carried out by the United States.
