‘Cuba is ready to fall’: Trump’s BIG warning after admitting ‘a lot of Cubans killed’ in US strikes against Venezuela

US President Donald Trump on Sunday (Jan 4) said that Cuba was “ready to fall” after US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro days earlier. Trump added that “a lot of Cubans were killed” during the US operation to seize the Venezuelan leader.

“Cuba is ready to fall,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One, adding that it would be hard for Havana to “hold out” without receiving heavily subsidised Venezuelan oil.

“I don’t think we need any action. It looks like it’s going down,” he added.

Speaking of casualties during the US operation, Trump said, “You know, a lot of Cubans were killed yesterday,” adding that there was “a lot of death on the other side, unfortunately.”

Meanwhile, Havana authorities said that 32 Cubans were killed during the US attack on Caracas that resulted in the capture of Maduro.

‘Criminal attack’

In a statement, the Cuban government called the US operations in Venezuela a “criminal attack”.

“As a result of the criminal attack carried out by the government of the United States” against Venezuela, “32 Cubans lost their lives in combat operations,” the statement read.

The deceased were members of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces or the Ministry of the Interior who were carrying out missions “at the request of counterpart agencies,” Cuban officials said.

Two days of national mourning were declared in Cuba beginning at dawn Monday (Jan 5). Havana has also pledged to organise tributes. The Cuban president has called the US forces “terrorists in imperial uniform.”

“Honour and glory to the brave Cuban fighters who fell facing terrorists in imperial uniform,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on X.

In an operation titled Operation Absolute Resolve, the American forces entered Venezuela, bombed Caracas and captured the Venezuelan leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their presidential palace under the direction of US President Donald Trump.

Maduro was flown to USS Iwo Jima, then to Guantánamo Bay, and finally by government plane to Stewart Air National Guard Base in NY. He is held at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center, and he faces narco-terrorism charges. He is set to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday (Jan 5).