“Four people killed aboard a Florida-registered speed boat following an alleged shootout with the Cuban coast guard were US residents, local officials said.
“The deceased were among a group of ten ‘armed’ individuals who had entered the country’s waters to carry out a terror attack, Cuba‘s government claimed in a statement issued Wednesday night.
“Six others aboard the vessel were left injured after they exchanged gunfire with the coast guard, per the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba. The New York Times reported that all those on board the boat were Cuban citizens living in the US.
We don’t have the other side of the story. If the report from Cuba is correct, we shouldn’t be surprised by the use of force, and while tensions between the US and Cuba are currently high, the incident probably would have gone this way at any time since the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Tensions may have actually already peaked.
“…it broke on Wednesday that the Trump administration is now allowing American companies to resell Venezuelan oil to private companies in Cuba. The new guidance came from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.”
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