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.
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.
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.”
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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