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Cuba's Interior Ministry has announced that four men on a US-registered speedboat were shot and killed after being intercepted in Cuban waters.

When a Cuban boat carrying five members of the ministry's border guard approached the vessel for identification, "the crew of the violating speedboat opened fire" and wounded the Cuban commander, the statement said.

"As a consequence of the confrontation, as of the time of this report, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six injured," the statement added.

Those injured were evacuated and given medical assistance.

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[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Cuba has accused 10 people aboard a US-registered speedboat it intercepted off its coast on Wednesday of planning "an infiltration with terrorist aims".

"So anyway, me 'n the boys figured we'd just take the boat out real quick over lunch, catch some rays, fish a little, coupla brewskis, maybe invade Cuba, you know, the usual."

-Teddy Roosevelt, probably

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

you joke, but this was the plan for the bay of piglets. lol

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Could just be common American idiots, could be intentional bait to justify a full military invasion of Cuba is quite high.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

10 guys. Let's invade a country.

Lemmy fact: one of them was named Leroy Jenkins.

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

yeah castro says you need at least 82

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Astrius@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So Cuba is firing at real drug boats?

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 15 points 2 days ago

Only after being fired upon, but yes.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Goog point: they were pirates, not drug-runners.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They were on a speedboat coming from Florida. They had drugs on them.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

did they fall off the boat? lol

[–] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Gulf of ~~Tonkin~~ America incident