The Government of Cuba also announced that a rally will be held on Friday at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a square in front of the US Embassy in Cuba.
Cuba will repatriate on Thursday, January 14, the bodies of the 32 Cuban soldiers who died during the United States attacks on Venezuela that culminated in the capture of Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, the island’s Government reported.
According to a statement, the remains of the 32 “combatants” will arrive on Thursday morning at the Havana international airport, where they will receive a posthumous tribute.
Subsequently, they will be transferred to the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Minfar), in the vicinity of the Plaza de la Revolución, where they will be displayed. The following morning access will be allowed to the public and in the afternoon they will be buried in the pantheons for those who fell for the defense of their respective provinces.
The Government also announced that a rally will be held on Friday at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a square in front of the US Embassy in Cuba.
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One day after the attacks in Venezuela, the island Executive confirmed that 32 soldiers died in “combative actions” and “after fierce resistance in direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombings.” In the US operation, 100 people have died “so far”, according to the Ministry of the Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela.
Many analysts had pointed out that Maduro’s first personal security circle was made up mainly of Cubans, something that Caracas and Havana had never confirmed.
A 2022 report by the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFMV) concluded, after analyzing “confidential written agreements” between Caracas and Havana, that this collaboration dates back to 2006, when Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro were presidents, respectively.
This document, delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council, states that “agents of the Cuban State had instructed and advised the Venezuelan General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence” in some of its intelligence and counterintelligence activities.
US President Donald Trump warned Cuba on Sunday that it will no longer receive money or oil from Venezuela, noting that the island has been “living for years” off of Venezuelan money and crude oil in exchange for “security services” for the “last two dictators (Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro).”
With information from the EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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