Cuban Government Says 4 Are Killed in Gunfire Exchange With Florida Speedboat

[D. Spaulding]

Source: NY Times

The Cuban government said it exchanged gunfire with a Florida-based speedboat that had entered its territorial waters Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding six others.

The vessel approached within one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel north of Corralillo, a town in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, according to a statement on the Facebook page of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior.

Cuban border-guard troops on a government boat approached the speedboat seeking identification when the people aboard the boat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, wounding the Cuban vessel’s commander, the statement said.

“As a result of the confrontation, at the time of this report, four foreign attackers were killed and six were wounded,” the government said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/world/americas/cuba-gunfire-speedboat-florida.html

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[SoFlaBro]

1. The MAGA fuckheads are going to lose their fucking shit when told to do so regarding this shit.

[groundloop]

2. I have to wonder if those were mercenaries sent by tRump to stir shit up.

This might be all the justification his feeble little mind needs to start a war with Cuba.

On second thought, after reading an article by The Guardian which wasn't behind a paywall, this area is frequented by human traffickers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/25/cuba-says-border-guards-killed-four-gunmen-on-us-registered-speedboat

[obamanut2012]

4. here are lots of bonkers Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade and Monroe County

I worked with some of them. Some of them would do this.

[Bengus81]

14. Yep....then he'll use all four of them as props in the next SOTU

[Javaman]

3. is this the orange assholes USS Maine moment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1890)

just now need the yellow press to blow it completely out of proportion

[BidenRocks]

6. Bay of Pigs?

I was 6.
I do not wish to relive my life!

[Javaman]

7. No kidding. could be a little of both.

just gotta see how far he flies off the handle and how quickly piss drunk pete sobers up.

[Escape]

5. The Trump administration knows how to pick a fight..

and start a war.

[Polybius]

8. From the article:

Cuban border-guard troops on a government boat approached the speedboat seeking identification when the people aboard the boat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, wounding the Cuban vessel’s commander, the statement said.

Very odd that the people on the US' boat would open fire. What were they thinking? And why were they armed anyway?

[Renew Deal]

9. Why would they be within a nautical mile of shore?

That's way too close for a lost craft

[EX500rider]

10. That's assuming the Cubans government version of events is true

Which may not necessarily be the case.

"Information from the Cuban government is widely considered by international observers, human rights organizations, and various governments to have low reliability, particularly regarding economic data, human rights practices, and internal security matters."

[Old Crank]

11. Pretty much the same

as information from our government.

[Bengus81]

15. +10,000

[Old Crank]

12. Well we are running guns

into Mexico and Canada. This administration is doing nothing to stop that.

[Rincewind]

13. What's the problem?

Just claim they were narco terrorists, and it's cool.

[Sneederbunk]

16. It's obvious that US mules were trying to bring drugs into Cuba.

[PATRICK]

17. They took prisoners

They may get some leverage to make Trump ease off? Past blunders of our currently hyperactive incompetently guided, gutted "Intelligence" agencies have been sent into hyperdrive with plots so old and now off the shelf that there can never be any successful followthrough. Not in the Mideast, not in South America or Cuba. God knows how any military personnel from top to bottom could stomach a seizure of Greenland.