The Cuban government on January 6 shared the names, ranks and ages of 32 of its military personnel who were killed during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by United States special forces three days earlier.
The personnel, ranging in age from 26 to 60, belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior. They included colonels, lieutenants, majors and captains, as well as a number of reserve soldiers. Headshots of each one of them were released by state media.
Havana was quick to acknowledge the deaths of the personnel who were deployed in Caracas under an agreement with the Venezuelan government.
“Our compatriots fulfilled their duty with dignity and heroism, falling after fierce resistance in direct combat against the attackers, or as a result of the bombing of the facilities,” an official statement released right after the U.S. operation said.
Among those killed was Colonel Humberto Alfonso Roca Sánchez, 67, who reportedly served as the garrison commander of Punto Cero, where Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro once lived. Another was Colonel Lázaro Evangelio Rodríguez Rodríguez, 62, who is believed to have overseen Cuba’s coast and border guards.
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Also on January 6, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said that Cubans were “prepared to give their lives” against any U.S. intervention.
“The U.S. president, displaying a complete lack of understanding about Cuba and repeating the agenda of lies of Cuban-American politicians and other interest groups, blasphemes against and threatens our people,” Rodríguez wrote on X. “Our valiant people, true to their history of struggle, will defend their nation against any imperialist aggression.”
The operation in Caracas was carried out by the U.S. military’s elite Delta Force. President Donald Trump said right after that “a couple of guys were hit,” but a Pentagon official told MS Now on January 7 that the number of wounded was in fact seven.
According to the official, two of the seven are still recovering, while five have recovered from their injuries sustained in the operation dubbed “Absolute Resolve.”
The official noted that an assessment of casualties on the ground was still ongoing and is being led by the U.S. intelligence community.
Venezuelan officials previously told MS Now that more than 70 people were killed in the operation, while other sources put the toll at over 80, including the 32 Cuban personnel.
Just a day after the capture of Maduro, Trump said that the government in Cuba was likely to fall soon, in a clear threat to the country.
“Cuba is ready to fall,” told reporters on January 4 as he flew back to Washington from his extended Florida holiday break. “Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it. Cuba literally is ready to fall.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio went even further, indicating that the U.S. might be willing to take some action against Cuba.
“I’m not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” the same day. But, he added, “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned.”
Despite this escalation, the U.S. is not likely to move quickly against Cuba. The whole intervention in Venezuela was in the end motivated by the desire to take over the country’s oil reserves, which are the largest in the world. Cuba does not have such attractive resources.
Washington could still attempt to pressure Havana in order to influence some internal change, or even a coup. The chances of such a strategy succeeding are very low, however.
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fuck them delta scumbags!
right back at you.
agreed that troll should sign up as a card carrying member of the slave society.
recent months saw a large u.s. military build up in the caribbean, with socom deploying assists in puerto rico and near trinidad and tobago…………………………… https://psee.io/8jqu9r
and you and your sh*thead inbred alter ego agree – with each other.
don’t wave the flag too hard bob, those delta guys would murder you just as soon as some cuban body guard.
they would you crew yes
they murder anybody, just like ss or gestapo. this is the effect of russia betray cuba, instead of use hollywood and the rest of the island of death and destruction as missile target. kill them all ! if bill gates, and who only restrict their poison campaign to “us”, no damage done. todays russia are completely hopeless, 27 million dead, and the struggle against fascism, all for nothing.
cuba isn’t russias to defend. russia isn’t communist so there is no basis for friendship other then past associations.
from a russian perspective cuba was always a drain of resources, it is even worse when viewed from an oligarch/capitalist perspective, cuba has nothing anyone needs or wants in sufficient quantities to base its economy on.
of course ! only follow orders ! its incredible how long this source to nazi germany have existed, they started by make a whole continent a concentration camp. gaza are their latest try to make one more state. their flag should have death sculls, not stars.
seconded. the silent majority
the s-400 did not work in venezuela. i hope china realizes the treacherous nature of putin’s russia before it’s too late.
sometimes you are too funny. go get a clue, if you can find one and know what it is.
you’re like this one…
“go back to msnbc! nancy mace rips ayanna pressley apart at minnesotta somali fraud hearing”
you’re like the presley persona atrying to use your saul alisky playbook, thinking no one knows. allegedly.
and that’s a 9 billion dollar fraud aryanna as trying to cover up desperately. imo
nancy who ? keep your whores for your self, they are of no interest.
the 7 wounded figure is probably a lie. the amerikunts lie about everything.
they are worse than jooz.
in most case they are jooz
grupo de administración empresarial, or gaesa, is worth many billions of dollars (not a billion).
bingo ! ! ✅
russia has turned off the s-400, as it did in iran and syria. putin is a dirty jewish merchant like dump. it’s easy to kill cubans in their sleep. dump and putler will have to explain this to the devil after they die.
you mean after they are welcomed home ? russia are about as stupid as “us”, they think that as soon they become greedy, and throw 27 million killed over board, they should be welcome in satans saloons. how they can speak about root causes, and almost entirely kill slavs, are beyond me.
i believe the war to control south america is about come to cuba. it is a strategic location to assemble assaults on venezuela and colombia. the us has been quietly fighting colombian rebels for over 60 years now. cuba survives on venezuelan oil and is blockaded by the us navy from any trade. a hard time for the cuban people.
you should understand that castro was one of the wealthiest men on the planet, not to mention allegedly trudeaus biological daddy. the cubans live like beggars whilst fidel owns mansions and if you title search california you will discover that the castros owm massive chunks of land there.
the bay of pigs? and all the failed assassination attempts on fidel castros life?
is he your hero? what did he do for cubans except cause thrm to try to escape to america??? wtf everyone knows how manyt fled.
free health care and education amerikunts could only dream of. cuba’s economic problems, like venezuela’s, like syria’s, were caused by vicious economic warfare over 60 years. theving amerikunts thieving their oil, thieving their ships, thieving their gold.
pigs arse fidel was one of the worlds wealthiest men he had mansions everywhere, about 9 i think. from memory abd the castro family are the or one of the biggest landowners in california too and what did he do for his work? act as provocateur for military industrialists profits did they pay him commission?
the “american” pigs should stop blame others, when they have voted for a poor jewish pig and murderer, which blame all homeless, and drug use on the rest of the world 😂 hopefully, he gets you all killed.
how about proof, you know the shit you don’t have. all lies, like your tramp. lies aren’t proof no, matter how many times you say it. btw, do you still believe china pays tariffs …lol yeah, tell us about brain cell. not. yeah, provocateur who never left cuba. damn, get real and come up with better bs.
kill every “american”. only kill them off. it should make the world peaceful.
sad, but true.
they are completely insane, all evilness they self do, they blame onto others. christians on steroids. if they use drugs, its the whole worlds fault. its only a repeat of nazi germany, a infected cancer tumor, that have the possibility to blame others for its stench.
they hate the truth here and down vote it all the time. that’s how you can distinguish between it and theirs.
a nazi can not tell any truth, all he do are to lie and murder.
go the hell of the site with your lies, nazi. hospital mass murderers. stay on the island of death and destruction, its all lies.
standard joo lies. castro led a fairly simple life. he was more interested in power than the trappings of wealth.
total total bs. pure propganda like lenin riding his bike no he had a fleet of cars limousines.
if you search for lenin and bike, you can even on the else constantly lying google, find pictures and information on lenin and his bike. “americans” are some evil breed of orchs, that cant tell a single word of truth. as soon as such a orch write something here, it is lies. they cant tell anything true.
from a wealthy family of sugar cane planters if my memory is correct. may be wrong.
took the road less travelled, giving up a life of secure privilege. something to do with relating to other cubans.
the insane pig, a known murderer, are of course very poor, a poor jew from hell. kill the nazi pig. preferably in the bay of pigs.
getting your castro’s mixed up there sh*tstein. 💩💩💩 = 🇮🇱
just stop it the nonsense the wars to get america out of their way so that they can control the world.
blow up every “us” base, and kill them all, they think they are invisible. amoebas from hell.
you are so mentally sick, that you cant notice that its your nazi entity that start all wars, and try to control the world.
colômbia is totally controlled by usa empire, so, nothing coming from colômbia would be good.
its because russian selfishness, they should have fire the missiles, not bring them back. nowadays, they kill slavs, for to not harm root causes. they have look to much on trick movies, and the jewish greed have them in a iron grip. there are only one solution to a rabid dog, kill it, and kill all it have infected.
grupo de administración empresarial (gaesa) is worth many billions of dollars (not a billion).
note that after the 1962 cuban missile crisis, president kennedy publicly pledged non-invasion, conditional: on cuba having no offensive nuclear weapons and not attacking the u.s. or its allies. yet again we see another cost of the collapse of the ussr; a gift that keeps on giving.
you obviously know nothing about cuban subversion.
you obviously know nothing except bullsh*ting, period
oh you’re so funny honey that’s hilarious coming from your lips to anyone’s rear
plumbing the depths there inbred, with your anal fetish.
there you go with the usual, expressing your dreams as projection. typical.
you obviously are yet another cog in the kike brigade. do yourself a favor and kill yourself now to save time. they’ll get you killed and dump your corpse in a mass grave. can’t admit when us murderers get theirs, can they. first no one was hurt, then a couple wounded, then 2 wounded in hospital…soon the truth will be half killed by friendly fire, the other half killed running away emulating der fuhrer, the bone spur cowboy.
look england set communism up together with switzerland. lenin lived there for years curiously with other big names from the era too. england protected and defended lenin as their agent when he was the most wanted terrorist on earth they controlled him. they sent him in when the time was right and he took his orders from them imo allegedly according to sources that aren’t school censored curriculum council approved propagandas. allegedly.
and when in austria hitler and freud jung i think and others a just happened to live so close that quite likely frequented the exact same coffee shop and it’s common knowledge that vienna was flooded with cocaine then
probably, “nukes” do not work. if they do, russia betrayed humanity in that “crises”, they should have erase “us” from the surface. now they have lie about a multipolar world, and continue to not defend the small countrys.
it didnt collapse it was entrapped by trade practices basically. because it was a threat united they couldn’t allow the world to see it work it had to be seen to fail otherwise communism, of that type, might get in their way. of owning everything themselves.
was it before he get murdered ? 😂 they are not agreement capable, they only murder. offensive nuclear weapon ? tell that they are for defense, if they are not pleased with that, fire everything. wipe them from the surface. it cant be anything wrong to do the same as them. nuclear weapon are probably a hoax, but they will maybe believe bill gates, if he start to poison them again, for their own best. the american dream 😂 they are so stupid, that mengele gates still lives.
more nazi propgandas as usual no, it was to take out the narco cartel extracting millions of american dollars and using them to fund americas enemies whilst drugging and killing her young men and women to the tube of around 300 every day each one having received tens of thousands of dollars worth of education training healthcare.. it was what china tried to do to england with opium but they failed and became communised .
yeah they sure are communists and nazis both haters of freedom and truth.
only go and get killed, its you who are the nazis, terrorizing the whole world. you sent trick movies about “moon landings”, trick movie in 9/11 for to mass murder in seven countries, mass murdered in the hospitals in the fake pandemic, and started two wars in europe, wwii, and ukraine. you hate humanity, that is what you call freedom and truth.
fentanyl was peddled by the (((sackler family))) for years and killed half a million amerikunts. when ordered to pay compensation they did the standard joo trick and declared themselves bankrupt.
you know, its the whole worlds fault that the sadistic pigs use drugs 😂
correct but as usual just a fragment of the truth. one obviously they were set up to be allowed to do that. two the health industry made it that dispensing dr’or pharmacists were paid by medicaid or whatever, cash bonuses for every patient they could say became an addict or overdosed and died that’s more complete. and that was by rule of law you can determine who put that into legislation yourself
i’ll add that back then somehow i had some painful neck after a physio visit to which the pharmacy girl cheery said, oh just go and get a script for opiods, they’re great and their writing them out like as if candy now etc
she had maybe shares in drugs, or in mass murder ?
it is you who are the nazis, idiot. killing greenlanders by drugs, as in the genocide in north america.
do you turn the opium wars upside down, idiot ?
regime change coming to cuba next…heheheh
🖕🖕my balls on yo eyes 🖕🖕
. you’re brave
yes i fucking am, and you’re a cunt.
trump is a racist white supremacist, clear imperialist and capitalist.no one on this earth try physically to stop him from direct piracy and robbing of small countries.dayly print us dollar do the talking to corupt agents.
yes, he is a nazi, and mentally as insane as his idol in nazi germany. its only one way to stop such scum, they need to get better snipers, or blow up the idiot.
wrong the fed owns the alleged us pero dollar
idiot. you are all owned by greed and rothschild, as long you use the shit. then there are some middle men, like adolf trump, and adolf hitler rothschild. if you only had tell that the fed owns you, it had be closer to truth 😂
whats pero dollar?
the exceptionals breed, they are going against the seals that protect américa. américa exceptionalism is based on the axiom they assign all the elites to control colonies, they ridged the game, they assign the lackeys and create the environment for the lackeys, then lackeys create the laws according to the exceptionals mandates. democracy is one of their biggest tools (seal).
america is doomed by the masters exceptionals breed, the only way to liberate america from the hegemon is to destroy the ancient seals one by one, and remove the lackeys from the system that is ridged to serve the hegemon an enslave the colonies. so, no big deal here, the exceptional breed will do whatever they want in latinamerica, next are cuba and nicaragua. maybe panama is they don’t allow the exceptionals to pass the canal for free.
right now not bias unsc or one man rule and make decision alone russia putin without administration input will stop trump.russia is currently dying a slow death in ukraine snail war.were armageddon and others who speed up the war were fired and removed by putin. shoigu nd gersimov cant plan a war.
nothings what it seems that’s true. but some people think the opposite
good action plan is trump is more faster then sound of kinzal missile and putin.wither it is wrong what trump does.but his special forces are doing what is expected from them.amazing and brilliant. russian spatnas are so demoralize and control by putin that their drive in a mud and get kill by drones
more rhetorical column filling
your continual garbage inbred makes up for anyone else’s contributions.
american joint arms tactics are very effective at achieving mission goals and limiting american casualties. having unlimited supplies of usd to bribe everyone helps too. can’t have a multipolar world or even real sovereignty if you do business in the enemies fiat currency.
you’re living in tbe past when under obama and bush and biden yes usaid was rorting merrily in promoting anti america activities allegedly not now keep up. anachronism aren’t valid
the latest jew are even more disgusting. but pleasure killers and nazis will not stop, until they are physically stopped.
right so no mention of the 400 000 deceased from the drug peddlers,just during bidens administration the almost 300( generally young american men or women teens young adults) every day but a fuss over 32 facilitators of criminal activities. alleged yes but obviously they would not have proceeded without the evidence being a absolutely compelling. what does that say about truth.
are you a idiot ? its no one else fault that lots of people in your rotten corps of mass murderers and genociders commit suicide by drugs. in afghanistan, you tried hard to expand the production and markets for drugs, but out you get thrown.
padli za dobrú vec. istotne budú mať časom postavený pomník za obranu venezuely a jej zvrchovanosti. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier.
new us fascist killing people all around the world. .
they try to expand the genocide of the north americans to the world.
it’s strange how the us has this thing about cuba when most of the rest of the world including those in nato just go on holiday there and enjoy the beaches.
our country has been captured by neocons and zionists. is it any wonder that we have become israel..?
technically, its the other way around, the genocide in north america happened before “israel” existed.
who do you think ran the banks then? you silly fool
your country has always been a captive of your murderous colonialist addictions.
occupied palestine is the public face of this inherently insecure mindset.
so silly, who hasn’t tried to have an empire? even the zulus in africa conquered and oppressed their neighbors.
when you see termites in your foundation, just think. zionists. who let them inside? christian evangelicals. remember christian zionists are working hard for end times.
bando de loucos
is it just “zionists”, really?
is it like the ones that don’t go to israel don’t try to control everything and everyone?
im just lost on the “zionism” thing being the only problem.
the jew and their destructive schemes infiltrated the egyptian, greek, babylonian, and roman empires long before they saw a need for “zionism”.
but it’s not the jews to blame about, it’s about the openness of those societies and breed to let the jews to infiltrate them. so, stop blaming the jews for everything. they control us empire, yes! but us empire uses israel to try to control and enslave all arab countries surrounding to get more lands and resources. the us empire controls more than 50% of the land mass of the world directly or indirectly through colonies and vassal countries.
death to the druglords.
no to drugs
death to the dictator
you swallow westoid propaganda. druglords – biggest are dea, cia and ice. you moron
are u a drug addict ? bogok kag mama potang ina mo gago ka!
notan ngomba ddrittua kramba gramma dumba.
cuban commies scum that repress the cuban people.
of course, “us” sanctions on everything, medicins for example, do not repress the cuban people. go to hell, nazi. you cant tell a sentence, that are not projection. you function exactly as the nazis in germany.
why would the cuban people be dependent on captialist america?
that just shows communism is crap
truth be told puerto rico is just as broke as cuba and they are supposed to be part of the usa.
maybe something else is wrong? maybe the people are lazy and corrupt?
look you just learned the word nazi and keep repeating it. go back to school and educate yoursel leftist scum.
when i hear “commies” i think dumb down amerikunt hillbillies who fuck their cousins like jews do. hey pal, guess what. cubans are the biggest contributors of international volunteer doctors worldwide.
and “us” are the source to have foul most of western “health care” to mass murder in the fake pandemic. if it will not be civilization ending, it should at least end contact with the present “us”. i will end as racist, if i see much more of them. but of course, they are no “race”, only stupid.
just forget the hypnosis scripts and follow your own thoughts
maybe they should rent the doctors out to generate some income, that is what cuba lacks.
hell maybe they could just stop micro managing everything and just let people earn a living and pay taxes to the state. bet that would work 100% better then any of their insane central planning crap that never worked for anyone.
utter load of bollocks