Cuba launches mass demonstration to decry US attack on Venezuela and demand Maduro's release

Tens of thousands of Cubans crowded Friday into an open-air plaza known as the “Anti-Imperialist Tribune” across from the U.S. Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the U.S. government release former president Nicolás Maduro. The crowd clutched Cuban and Venezuelan flags as part of a demonstration organized by the government as tensions between Cuba and the U.S. remain heightened after the U.S. struck Caracas on Jan. 3 and arrested Maduro. “The entire Nation rises up!” wrote Cuba’s Foreign Ministry on X. “It is a resounding response to those who dare to threaten the peace and sovereignty for which we have fought so hard.”