Overview
- Thousands rallied outside the U.S. Embassy on Friday as President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared “no fear” of Washington and ruled out talks conditioned by coercion.
- The two-day tributes ended with burials in local Fallen for the Defense pantheons following public viewings at the Ministry of the Armed Forces in Havana.
- Cuban officials said the dead belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry and were deployed under a bilateral security accord near Nicolás Maduro’s protection detail.
- State media showed more than a dozen wounded arriving from Caracas as Cuba demanded Maduro’s release and described his capture as a kidnapping.
- The government condemned a U.S. hurricane-aid shipment as political manipulation even as it accepted the donation, and it denounced President Trump’s threat to cut Venezuelan oil and financing to the island.