Cuba kills four crew members of a US civilian speedboat (english.elpais.com)
from Valnao@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 19:55
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[deleted] on 25 Feb 2026 20:11 next collapse
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 25 Feb 2026 20:36 collapse

after it failed to obey orders to stop in territorial waters and opened fire on the police vessel,

Yeah, sure. Someone trying to pick up family members opened fire on a police boat.

[deleted] on 25 Feb 2026 20:48 collapse
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Triumph@fedia.io on 25 Feb 2026 20:28 next collapse

Should have said there were definitely drugs on the boat.

Daggity@lemmy.zip on 25 Feb 2026 20:30 next collapse

No surprise when Rubio is so set to kidnap their leaders like we just did to Maduro. Tensions and watching are going to be high.

Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 20:32 next collapse

Hasn’t the US set the precedent that this is ok?

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 25 Feb 2026 20:39 collapse

This was inside Cuban territorial waters, so it’s pretty much always been this way.

Also, they fired on a police boat.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today on 25 Feb 2026 23:53 collapse

I hope Cuba doesn’t release them. Cause you know they will be immediately pardoned and made rich. Their dead friends forgotten. As they will be in a month or two. It’ll be the typical press tour. Big companies with get a talk, these guys will be shown to be dumb as shit, they will migrate into FOX, then finally to own/blaze. They’ll make a few million dollars and disappear into obscurity before oding like they should’ve done two days ago!

lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Feb 2026 20:37 next collapse

No governments are fans of coyotes, FYI.

52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org on 25 Feb 2026 21:11 next collapse

If people want to leave Cuba, the Cuban government ought to let them go. This should be a national policy.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 25 Feb 2026 21:29 next collapse

Cuba isn’t North Korea. Most Cubans are just too poor to leave.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 22:20 collapse

And then be “illegals” in the US and get deported back to Cuba by ice after spending a year is a detention camp and all the horror that entails?

RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 22:25 next collapse

Every country should let their citizens leave and every country should welcome refugees.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 22:30 next collapse

In a perfect world, there would be no borders, yet here we are

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works on 25 Feb 2026 22:33 collapse

Completely open borders? That’s almost like…imagine there’s no countries… 🎶

(Not making fun or disagreeing with you)

RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 22:55 collapse

I’m for completely open borders, but accepting refugees isn’t the same as open borders.

It’s something the right have tried to conflate, but accepting refugees is the bare minimum and separate from accepting economic migrants, student, buisness visas, etc.

I do think immigration policy should basically be passing a background check, but right now I’d be happy with doing the bare minimum as defined by the UN convention on refugees: www.unhcr.org/…/1951-refugee-convention

52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org on 27 Feb 2026 04:10 collapse

Cubans are exempt from most of the deportation laws.

Hegar@fedia.io on 25 Feb 2026 21:19 next collapse

several incidents of this kind have been reported, including two in 2022. In one case, a speedboat coming from the United States fired on Cuban Border Guard forces near Villa Clara, injuring a Cuban officer.

The other incident took place in Bahía Honda, in western Cuba, when a vessel also coming from the United States collided with an Interior Ministry patrol boat, causing the U.S. craft to sink and killing several of its occupants.

Authorities on the island frequently report finding abandoned or seized speedboats along the northern coast (Ciego de Ávila, Villa Clara, Havana), commonly used to pick up potential migrants. They describe these operations as “territorial violations and human trafficking.”

rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works on 25 Feb 2026 21:54 next collapse

Sorry, are we not blowing up civilian boats now?
~ Cuba

choui4@lemmy.zip on 25 Feb 2026 22:45 next collapse

America fucking LOVES pushing and pushing and pushing a countries boundaries, taking more, seeing what they can get away with, how much they can take. Then, when the soverign nation reacts, as any other country would/should “THEYRE KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!”. The flag is false but the terrorism is now justified

FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Mar 2026 00:09 collapse

True. Same technique Israel and Russia are using actually

flandish@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2026 21:04 next collapse

good. they were probably muling drugs.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today on 25 Feb 2026 23:55 collapse

Definitely in their veins.

Wataba@sh.itjust.works on 26 Feb 2026 01:10 collapse

sips tea