Cuban Communists Announce Vague Plan for ‘State of War’ After Losing Soldiers in Maduro Arrest

Cuba’s National Security Council held a meeting this weekend to discuss what state propaganda described as “plans and measures to take a step toward a State of War” a day after welcoming the remains of 32 of its soldiers killed in an American operation to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

U.S. forces apprehended Maduro and his wife, “first combatant” Cilia Flores, in the early morning hours of January 3, extracting him from the Miraflores Palace. Despite both Caracas and Havana denying for years that the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) had any significant presence in Venezuela to aid the socialist regime, the Cuban Communist Party confirmed after the arrest that 32 Cuban security forces were killed in the operation. That revelation validated years of