Cuba Kills Four on Florida Boat; Rubio Promises ‘to Figure Out Exactly What Happened’
Rubio said the U.S. won’t rely on information from Cuba.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the press that the boat Cuba’s Coast Guard shot at and killed four people was not participating in a U.S. government operation.
We do not know who was on the boat. One person told The New York Post that the boat was “a US civilian boat working to get relatives out of Cuba, adding that the vessel was not a US Naval or Coast Guard boat.”
Rubio also said that he would not discuss any conversations officials have had regarding the killing.
It’s unlikely the Trump administration will receive the truth from Cuba because, well, it’s Cuba:
Suffice to say what it’s important to be out there, and everyone needs to know, is that we’re going to have our own information on this, and we’re going to figure out exactly what happened.
And there are a number of things that could have happened here, but I’m not even going to, I was about to say, I’m not even going to speculate as to what it could have been. It’s a wide range of things. Suffice to say, it is highly unusual to see shootouts on open sea like that. It’s not something that happens every day. It’s something, frankly, that hasn’t happened with Cuba in a very long time.
.@SecRubio on Cuban military firing on U.S. boat: "We're going to find out exactly what happened here and then we'll respond accordingly." pic.twitter.com/KYPqOpQYRd
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 25, 2026
The Cuban Ministry of the Interior confirmed Border Guard Troops killed four people on a speedboat registered in Florida after it entered Cuban borders.
The government claimed the passengers opened fire on the troops:
When a surface unit of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, carrying five service members, approached the vessel for identification, the crew of the violating speedboat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, resulting in the injury of the commander of the Cuban vessel.
As a consequence of the confrontation, as of the time of this report, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six were injured. The injured individuals were evacuated and received medical assistance.
Note from the Ministry of the Interior:
On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States, with registration number FL7726SH, approached up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the… pic.twitter.com/WmWKL1tFET
— Cuban Embassy in US (@EmbaCubaUS) February 25, 2026
Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) demanded an investigation after Cuban troops killed four people and injured six on a boat that was registered in Florida.
“I am calling for an immediate investigation into this massacre,” Gimenez said on X. “United States authorities must determine whether any of the victims were U.S. citizens or legal residents and establish exactly what occurred.”
🚨#SOSCuba 🇨🇺🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Cxha8tp60z
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) February 25, 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier already promised to investigate the incident.
“I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to work with our federal, state, and law enforcement partners to begin an investigation,” Uthmeier wrote on Facebook. “The Cuban government cannot be trusted, and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable.”
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Someone elsewhere commented they immediately searched Coast Guard databases and the registry number wasn’t found.
Also, our blockade (that’s what it practically is) isn’t working very well if speedboats can get within 1 mile of the Cuban shoreline. 😉
Lastly, will we hear leftists condemn this as a flagrant act of murdering some poor fishermen?
Oh, also, 72 Hour Rule goes into effect on what really happened.
Leftists probably gearing up to celebrate the incident 🙄
Leftists don’t believe in the 72-hour Rule.
Well, that’s a stupid take. You can’t block every boat on the ocean including a small speedboat. You realize the ocean is a big place, right?
You realize Cuba isn’t that big, right?
It’s the 17th largest island in the world so pretty big.
Cuba has ~3500 miles of coastline. What would be your idea of big? For reference, the State of Florida only has ~1,350 miles of coastline.
The blockade is symbolic. We aren’t diverting enough resources to do an actual chokehold. That would actually be wasteful.
I trust Rubio
Yeah right.
Ever since Rubio accused Trump of having a small penis on national television he’s been my go to guy for truthfulness.
“One person told The New York Post that the boat was “a US civilian boat working to get relatives out of Cuba“
Makes sense since we know there were 10 people on a 24 foot boat.
Until the people in the boat are identified it’s all speculation. Was it an operation to land operatives on Cuba? I wouldn’t think so. There are better ways to get on the island than an ostentatious speed boat. Cuba’s intelligence and border security are both well known. The intelligence service has Miami throughly penetrated. Why? Because WE have had no border security. Was it a “Red Flag” operation by Cuba? Possibly. We have been blowing boats up for a while now. (I support) Cuba can just say they are deterring smugglers. We can’t have much of retort to that statement.
The NY Post has reported: Four of the passengers were gunned down by Cuban border troopers in a shootout. The six injured survivors were identified as Amijail Sánchez González, Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, Conrado Galindo Sariol, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló, Cristian Ernesto Acosta Guevara, and Roberto Azcorra Consuegra, according to the embassy.
The embassy additionally identified one of the deceased as Michel Ortega Casanova.
“I am calling for an immediate investigation into this massacre,”
What “massacre”? We don’t know what happened but if a boat was there and if it opened fire then the Cubans were well within their rights to return fire. If any of this even happened. It could just as easily as not or the boat could have been running drugs using a fake hull number. We don’t know.
It was a 24 foot center console, a small fishing boat.
Regardless of any of the missing details at this time, shooting from a military vessel into a small fishing boat crammed with 10 people is a massacre.
Let’s follow the 72 hour rule so that we can learn more, but it was a massacre and that is one known fact.
Nope. See my post below as new information has come out from the family of one of the people killed.
As for your “24 ft fishing boat” comment. So what? Are you saying you can’t fire weapons from a fishing boat because I can point to a bunch of armed Somali Pirates who prove you wrong. If they were trying to infiltrate Cuba to stage a revolution with a boat full of guns, got intercepted and instead of surrendering or running decided to get it started on the high seas then Cuba was well within it’s right to shoot back.
So you obviously don’t want to go by the rules (see below), and decided to take their word, repeat it and make their case.
The cuban regime loves it when people do exactly what you are doing.
“If they were trying to infiltrate Cuba to stage a revolution with a boat full of guns”
Yeah right.
10 men in a 24 foot fishing boat are gonna bring in enough weaponry to overthrow a country of 11 million.
prediction: Cuba becomes the 51st state, before Puerto Rico. PR will then be 52.
The US needs one or the other as a base for military operations in the Caribbean and South America but not both. I vote for Cuba and let PR become it’s own country. The problem is if we make Cuba a State then Haiti is right next door with the resulting flood of criminals.
Rules for dealing with the Cuban government:
Rule #1 : Never ever, under no circumstance at all, trust anything that comes from the Cuban regime.
Rule #2 : See rule number 1.
Here is interesting information https://nypost.com/2026/02/26/us-news/truck-driver-killed-on-speedboat-by-cuban-guards-fell-into-obsessive-and-diabolical-quest-for-countrys-freedom-brother/
Looks like some people got all emboldened by the anti ICE riots by pretend revolutionaries that they talked themselves into believing they were actual ones. The problem is they ran up against a country that doesn’t coddle people and let them act out with no repercussions.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
We have to wait for details to come out (72 hour rule mentioned above).
However, based on what we know so far, I have little doubt in mind, that this is a false flag orchestrated by sectors within the cuban dictatorship. The purpose would be to undermine the ongoing negotiations with the Trump administration.
As of now, they have identified the 6 wounded and one of the dead. They are “working” to identify the other 3. Yeah, that’s a lie right there.
They said it was a speedboat. Another lie.
They did not mention which type of boat was used by the coast guards, a very important detail, and a lie by omission.
They also say that they found weapons, Molotov cocktails and other home made explosives. And of course, all the “suspects” have criminal histories.
They also arrested a Cuban national in the island, that “was sent to Cuba to coordinate the operation”. Well, the “coordinator” was somebody that was deported by the Trump administration.
These lies fit the pattern perfectly. It would not the first time they orchestrate an incident. There is a long list.
First thing I’d like to say is that we have an embargo against Cuba, not a blockade.
So Boat traffic between Florida and Cuba happens all the time.
Canadian nationals who have a boat in Florida can go to and from Cuba and spend money there with no problems.
So it’s hard to believe that the Cubans would open fire on a non-threatening boat because they earn a lot of revenue from all these foreign boats going to Marina Hemingway
I can’t help but wonder if this was a covert operation that went wrong. Could the CIA be involved?
It is not smart to take a boat to Cuba.
Wise people avoid areas that are known to be dangerous.
They would have had to be crazy to take a fishing boat there. Likewise Cuba would be crazy to attack a civilian ship without cause.
“Likewise Cuba would be crazy to attack a civilian ship without cause.”
Nah.
Just do a Trump and claim they were transporting drugs.
Trump has done it a dozen times.
Another lie:
They listed Roberto Azcorra as one of the people in the boat. The real Roberto Azcorra is here in the US and has come out to deny any involvement, and of course, his supposed capture in Cuba.
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