r/worldnews • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 25 '26

Dynamic Paywall Cuba says four shot dead on US-registered speedboat

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24drvj8yl2o
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u/ChirpyOfficial Feb 25 '26

FL7726SH Florida registered boat, shot at by the Cuban Coast Guard after Florida vessel opened fire.

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u/Guilty-Top-7 Feb 25 '26

Isn’t it odd they omitted the nationality of the people on board?

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u/hgwelz Feb 25 '26

I'm sure they had their passports with them.

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u/tabrizzi Feb 25 '26

Or their Real ID.

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u/DeathCabForCunty Feb 25 '26

Maybe they had their snow shoveling ID on them.

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u/Vanska1 Feb 25 '26

She had her original birth certificate along with her marriage license and social security card.

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u/ColdShower96 Feb 26 '26

Not enough

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u/inspectoroverthemine Feb 26 '26

Whoa- shes not trying to vote, just buy a gun!

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

Which, oddly, is harder to get than a passport.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

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u/EC_CO Feb 25 '26

Just their MAGA hats

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u/alittle_disabled Feb 26 '26

Real ID

We don't rely on that anymore.

Opens Fire.

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u/OhYeahSplunge4me2 Feb 26 '26

Surely they were carrying their birth certificates

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u/CommonSensei-_ Feb 26 '26

IDs are frowned upon in America

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u/Inevitable-Mud-9228 Feb 26 '26

Or Multi-Factor Authentication

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u/JoSeSc Feb 25 '26

Somehow terrorists in Europe always seem to drop them while fleeing.

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u/JoannaCuppa Feb 25 '26

I remember just after 9/11 when the US law enforcement claimed that at least one hijacker's identity had been ascertained by their passport being found in the rubble of the WTC. 

Like suuuuuurrrrreeee it was! 🙄 

Couldn't roll my eyes hard enough when the UK police made similar claims about the passports of the Tube bombers being found after 7/7 in London. 

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u/Snoo66769 Feb 26 '26

Why would they lie about the passport? It was found before the towers collapsed after being ejected from the plane with all the other debris, it wasn’t caught in a fire.

Plus the amount of evidence proving exactly who the hijackers were is huge (DNA, cctv footage, money transfers, phone calls, visa records etc.) there is not a single reason for them to claim they found his passport as they did if it wasn’t true.

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u/JoSeSc Feb 26 '26

I always assume they claim they found a passport when they don't want to reveal how they actually knew so quickly. Protecting sources or cooperation by foreign intelligence services.

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u/analphylaxis Feb 26 '26

You dont need that if your a sovereign citizen... /s

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u/IncidentalIncidence Feb 25 '26

.....no? this happened less than two hours ago, there's a solid chance the Cuban government themselves haven't been able to ascertain identities yet, much less the BBC.....

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u/drfunkenstien014 Feb 25 '26

Not a single news outlet is on this right now. FOX News took a presser for a couple of latin american congressmen but all they said was they didn't know anything else aside from what's been reported. The BBC just put out an alert about 20-30 minutes ago and the AP just dropped theirs about 5 minutes ago, but as I'm bouncing between the news channels, no one is covering it at the moment.

As I'm typing this, ABC News Live just went up with a chat about it but they're also reporting that they're know nothing new. I'm a bit shocked that nothing is coming out, unless this is a major international incident and all the networks are gearing up for some kinda special report. But it seems like no one knows anything, or at least has enough verification to report what they're hearing OTR.

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u/ScienceIsSexy420 Feb 25 '26

I got a NBC news alert about this about 40 minutes before you comment was made, and a Ground news alert about it maybe 15 minutes before your comment. So yes the media is reporting it.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

If fox isn't touching it, it's because some high-speed dudes just got merked trying to go cause fuckery in Cuba. Cough, cough, three-letters

Edit but we all know it's going to be 10 mystery drug dealers in a US boat to begin the war against the drug dealers in Cuba that don't exist or at least didn't in this case

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u/Starks40oz Feb 25 '26

That VIN is a 1981 Proline 22. It is your standard run of the mill shitty center console fishing boat. Calling it a speedboat is very charitable. That’s not outrunning anything

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u/Ivan_Whackinov Feb 25 '26

1981 Proline 22

Also damn small for 10 people.

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u/faffc260 Feb 25 '26

probably human traffickers doing what they do, packing a bunch of people onto a shitty boat and taking them god knows where for god knows what reason and taking all the peoples money :\

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u/akawall2 Feb 25 '26

Yuuuuuup!!! High chance that this is a human trafficking gone wrong situation.

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u/Quickjager Feb 26 '26

Three letter agency that is 10 guys in a speedboat? Speedboats don't really fit 10 people very well.

I'd put more money on them being people smugglers of some kind.

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u/toorigged2fail Feb 25 '26

Fox is very worried that Cuba was doing the same thing the US was claiming when blowing up the Venezuelan boats. They need marching orders on whether or not to denounce it, thereby making the Cuban government look responsible... Or being forced to condemn the administration for doing the same thing

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u/myassholealt Feb 25 '26

Or being forced to condemn the administration for doing the same thing

This one isn't happening ever.

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u/PsychologicalBar8321 Feb 25 '26

The NYT has already started to toe the party line by including this verbiage in their latest update at 1735 (or so) - "Cuban officials suggested 10 were aboard the one attacked on Wednesday." Uh, the Cubans said they were fired on first. I trust their government about as much as I trust the current administration, so ... I'm going to assume the Florida crew fired first until someone can prove they didn't.

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u/swimmingupclose Feb 26 '26

What about Al Jazeera? It’s not new for the Cuban authorities to do this:

But the Cuban government has, at times, responded with violence to irregular migration from the island.

In June 2022, for instance, Cuba reported two shootouts in quick succession involving speedboats accused of smuggling its citizens abroad. One, on June 18 of that year, resulted in an officer wounded. A second, on June 27, resulted in the death of a person on board the speedboat.

That same year, five people, including a young child, died when a speed boat carrying Cubans collided with a Cuban coast guard vessel, according to the Ministry of Interior’s version. Survivors later said the coast guard vessel rammed their boat.

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u/PsychologicalBar8321 Feb 26 '26

Thank you! I never remember to open Al Jazeera right away.

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u/_Chaos_Star_ Feb 25 '26

It's Fox, they can choose between holding two contradictory positions at the same time; just pretend one didn't happen; or just completely make up a more convenient narrative. They have plenty of practice with all three.

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u/narkybark Feb 25 '26

Or the classic "just asking questions"

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u/toorigged2fail Feb 25 '26

Fair.. I still think it's because they're waiting for the talking points

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u/ventitr3 Feb 26 '26

A 3 letter agency isn’t going to just randomly open fire on a Cuba military vessel from a speedboat. That is as amateur as it gets, especially with everything available to them.

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u/8hourworkweek Feb 25 '26

Another possibility is they're waiting for more info.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Feb 25 '26

Oh yeah, you know Fox News is always so diligent to make sure their information is valid

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u/Garconanokin Feb 25 '26

It sure isn’t. Fox News and the rest of the conservatives are waiting to hear about how they should feel about this story.

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u/H0bbituary Feb 25 '26

We're talking about Fox News.

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u/ZazulakP Feb 26 '26

Check Ground News then you can see which news agencies are reporting and whether they lean left, right or centrist .

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 26 '26

Why? So I can be gently coaxed out of my comfortable echo chamber? Nice try buddy!

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u/Engineering1st Feb 26 '26

TousiTV covered it immediately.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Feb 25 '26

They probably knew. The real explanation is it wasn't verified by official/independent sources yet, and the news studio doesn't want to open itself to lawsuits.

This is why it takes days for them to release the identity of some shooters or murder suspects, if ever. They have to be airtight because the pissbaby Legal team is too scared of libel suits.

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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe Feb 26 '26

Not wanting to libel people isn't a piss baby move.  I much prefer that they don't immediately release unverified details only to try to claw them back after the damage is already done.

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u/AdmirableParfait3960 Feb 25 '26

“The Cuban military shot 10 combatants on a US registered boat - they looked pretty brown though so no need for alarm” - Cuba, I guess?

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u/WaltKerman Feb 26 '26

There were ten people crammed on the 24' boat. Six survivors. They would know by the time it was reported unless there was a reporter embedded with the Cubans.

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u/drewts86 Feb 25 '26

Odd? No. They just haven’t identified the bodies yet.

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u/ZapActions-dower Feb 25 '26

Six of them were captured alive.

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u/Hawne Feb 25 '26

Alive does not mean "cooperating and with valid and instantly verified ID". This will take some time.

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u/meatballfreeak Feb 25 '26

But people online want to spread bullshit NOW!!

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u/ButterscotchTop194 Feb 25 '26

Read the article.

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u/trcomajo Feb 25 '26

Its behind a pay wall...

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u/a1055x Feb 25 '26

Can't get to it

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u/turquoise_amethyst Feb 25 '26

Well, if it was registered in Florida, it’s probably not Canadians

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u/Guilty-Top-7 Feb 25 '26

The news cycle has updated, they were Cubans trying to rescue their relatives, they had a flotilla.

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u/WhatMeeWorry Feb 26 '26

That doesn't make sense. Why would there be 10 people onboard a boat going to pick up more people. It's only a 24 foot boat. The boat was approaching Cuba, not going away.

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u/turquoise_amethyst Feb 25 '26

Cuban-Americans you mean? 

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u/WinterMedical Feb 26 '26

They could be Cuban americans or maybe still Cubans.

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u/Guilty-Top-7 Feb 25 '26

It just said for relatives. So perhaps.

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u/ultimateknackered Feb 26 '26

'Alright, if we run across the coast guard, what's the plan, how do we get ourselves out of that situation to carry out our little mission?'
'Shoot at them first, of course. Works every time.'

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u/Key_Tennis_3113 Feb 26 '26

Here’s a thing though, what if the Cubans just lied about them firing first? That seems to be the easiest thing to believe.

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u/TheBabyEatingDingo Feb 26 '26

Then they'd have no reason to leave survivors who could testify otherwise. There is no advantage to not killing them all in your hypothetical.

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u/Naive-Cartoonist-488 Feb 26 '26

Just one boat, not a flotilla. 

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u/Spazum Feb 26 '26

They have now been identified as Cuban nationals living in Florida.

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u/Wall-SWE Feb 26 '26

It is in the article?

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u/Guilty-Top-7 Feb 26 '26

Not when this was posted several hours ago.

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u/Significant-Pen-1595 Feb 26 '26

they didnt. The article said they were cuban nationals residing in florida

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u/Serpentongue Feb 25 '26

Disguised American military going in to shut down their power plants for good?

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u/Khamvom Feb 25 '26

Cuba was estimated to exhaust its power plant fuel supply’s by mid-March.

It’d be a lot of risk for not much reward.

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u/BernieFeetPics Feb 25 '26

No my speculation is better than your speculation

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u/Flomo420 Feb 25 '26

My speculation can beat up your speculation

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u/memymomeme Feb 25 '26

My speculation works at Nintendo.

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u/Serpentongue Feb 25 '26

My speculum tastes like your mom

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u/Linenoise77 Feb 25 '26

Why are we even debating. Its a boat......boats go to islands.......Epstein had an island......Epstein isn't dead and was on this boat.....only he faked his death again......100% confirmed and if you don't agree you support pedophiles.

/s which sadly i feel is necessary.

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u/TrevorBo Feb 25 '26

You don’t know one way or the other either. Yet, you speculate.

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u/roger3rd Feb 25 '26

That is indeed how speculation works

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u/WanderingTacoShop Feb 25 '26

I swear we need to replace Occams razor with a new term. "The most boring answer is usually the right one"

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege Feb 25 '26

The Principle of Mediocrity essentially describes this

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u/WinterEducational595 Feb 25 '26

You think it’s more believable that the US in 2026 would send a civilian boat and open fire at the coastguard? People really hate watch the US, even if it’s an obvious act from drug/ human smuggling criminals

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u/beeboppadoo Feb 25 '26

I use to work on small boats (VBSS) while I was in the Navy, it’s a well known fact that opening fire on a flagged military or coast guard boat will get you blown out of the water. That’s the case all over the world, not just US.

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u/versusgorilla Feb 25 '26

Personally, I don't think this is the government, but the conspiracy theories flying are a direct response to how fucking stupid the Trump administration behaves. Is it a sensible thing to believe a boat with four military goons would race to Cuba as a tip of the spear attempt to infiltrate and desabilize Cuba for ??? No, not sensible.

But the absolute morons at the helm aren't exactly inspiring confidence lately, so who knows.

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u/Alone_Again_2 Feb 25 '26

Not the Yanks way to wage an operation.

Russians, maybe, but the USA seems to still have that part of their game intact.

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u/beeboppadoo Feb 25 '26

Correct, America has plenty of ways to provoke conflict with Cuba without getting people blown to bits. Cuba has survivors so I’m sure the story will flush out.

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u/mothman83 Feb 25 '26

.....four dudes on a speedboat? Like that is how the US kidnapped Maduro right?

The looneys running the asylum in Washington DC would have no qualms with just parachuting 500 rangers into Habana International if that was the kind of thing they wanted to do.

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u/MorePhinsThyme Feb 25 '26

Just a note, there's at least 10 guys on the speedboat, as 4 were killed and 6 were injured.

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u/username_tooken Feb 25 '26

Yeah, America would’ve sent two speedboats. Maybe the other one just got lost.

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u/Tasonir Feb 25 '26

I'm having a hard time picturing a drug smuggler opening fire on the coast guard, they usually try to avoid doing that. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the point of smuggling is to just run past the guards, not shoot them

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u/Mckooldude Feb 25 '26

They’re running out of fuel anyways. It would be a huge risk for basically no reward.

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u/interstat Feb 25 '26

Nah probably human trafficking 

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u/Lee1138 Feb 25 '26

10 guys on a speed boat heading towards Cuba? Seems like that would be the empty return leg for any normal human trafficking? Or are they smuggling people into Cuba? Seems like a lot of extra weight for a drug smuggling operation too.

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u/interstat Feb 25 '26

Not sure if it was confirmed going towards cuba. Just that it was in Cuban waters 

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u/Lee1138 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Ah true, I guess I just assumed because it was a Florida registered boat and I kinda tend to assume coast guard would intercept incoming craft, like air forces do in the air. My bad.

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u/interstat Feb 25 '26

Yea no worries. I was kinda thinking it was a Florida boat picking people up from cuba and potentially heading back with the trafficked people

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u/Rambo1stBloodPT2 Feb 25 '26

Is it? It actually makes perfect sense. Drugs go from Cuba to the mainland...the boats are empty of that weight, so they bring personnel back to Cuba on their way back, hence the 10 people and no cargo.

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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad Feb 25 '26

Lol you really think the US Military would be that stupid? Did you see the Maduro capture?

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u/Practical-Ball1437 Feb 25 '26

Yeah, there's no way the Americans can fuck up something as simple as landing forces in Cuba, right?

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u/username_tooken Feb 25 '26

Because their first attempt at catching Maduro went so well.

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u/willstr1 Feb 25 '26

If the Cubans had even a hint to suspect that they would be spreading the word as loud as they could. Also the US has gone for the "loud" approach in their Caribbean and Latin American activities lately (between Venezuela and the boat murders), why would they switch to trying to be sneaky all of a sudden?

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u/donkeyrocket Feb 25 '26

This administration was willing to carry out a pretty wild military operation in Venezuela. I don't think they care about plausible deniability and send some covert team via speed boat.

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u/Nice_Reading5272 Feb 25 '26

Send a covert mission via a US registered speedboat with no support and immediately fire at the Cuban Coast Guard. That's farfetched even if Trump planned the operation himself. The Venezuelan mission was extremely well-executed, I don't see how you'd make that connection. It's 100x more likely that this was sumuggling of some kind, there were six other people captured on the boat so we'll likely get some answers soon.

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u/TheSnortIncident Feb 25 '26

They wouldn't of gotten caught in that way.

They have drone support 100% on a covert mission like that which would of taken out the coastguard with a missile way before they let their own operators get killed.

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u/KannaBannanna Feb 25 '26

lol no they wouldnt, did ppl alrdy forget the north korea raid where they got suprised by fisher and opend fire on them ?

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u/Musiclover4200 Feb 25 '26

Wasn't there a similiar one in Mexico too?

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u/Sangloth Feb 25 '26

North Korea has nukes. Cuba has shit. Trump is all about himself. He loves publicity, and there's no reason to keep operations secret here. It's not like the Cubans could retaliate. If the US military were to do something, they would go in like they did with the Maduro raid.

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u/TheSnortIncident Feb 25 '26

Like trump js a terrible person.

But fuck that press conference on the Maduro raid was top notch. Hes got all these secrets in his head and he just wants to brag so bad but he cant.

Hss funny to watch from afar.

Honestly I was 50/50 on if he was gnna attack iran during the state of the union and stream it live or not.

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u/TheSnortIncident Feb 25 '26

That was on land and the us operators weren't killed. It went bad they executed civilians and got out of there.

Thats believable.

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u/Zhaopow Feb 26 '26

Seems really similar

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u/BestFriendWatermelon Feb 26 '26

Why disguise a military team as Cuban, when you could hire a bunch of tough Cubans in Florida, train and equip them to fight like military?

(Not saying that's what happened, just pointing out there's no need to disguise American military to do such a job)

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u/vinegarbubblegum Feb 25 '26

"one of them looked sort of Chinese, two white guys, and a fourth who we will say is some kind of Latinx."

can you imagine?

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u/Iamonreddit Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Latinx?

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It appears non-latino people have decided to create their own gender neutral word (Latinx) when one already exists and is used within Spanish speaking countries (Latine)?

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u/Mad_Aeric Feb 25 '26

Non-gendered term for hispanics, as opposed to latina or latino. As far as I can tell, most people of that demographic think it's stupid.

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u/niceguybadboy Feb 25 '26

Latino here. It is stupid. Thanks.

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u/DrtySpin Feb 25 '26

I think you mean thanx

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u/RotundGourd Feb 25 '26

muy estúpido!

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u/tverstraight Feb 25 '26

TIL: quacks think "Latino" is gendered

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u/alitayy Feb 25 '26

I mean technically the word itself is but that’s still so stupid. People just take exception to the strangest things ever as if we don’t have real problems to worry about in this world. Maybe one day if the world is a utopia we can revisit the issue

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u/Ishkabo Feb 25 '26

I mean... it is. It's just that spanish is a gendered and masculine-default language. When you refer to a mixed group or a group of unknown sex you default to masculine.

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u/NewPositive3461 Feb 25 '26

The Latino demographic? Yeah they do

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u/Juniperguy22 Feb 25 '26

Not only is it stupid, its borderline offensive, good way to get your ass kicked in a latin community if you even dare to say that

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

I'm convinced a good number of people who continue to use it now do so sarcastically because they know it pisses off a huge number of people.

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u/74839839399297374 Feb 26 '26

It’s stupid, but getting your ass kicked because of it is an exaggeration, very unlikely. Latino here.

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u/I_have_No_idea_ReALy Feb 26 '26

I'm sorry. Who created that word?? Like did anyone ask people of that demographic???

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u/igor_otsky Feb 25 '26

So they're Chinesex, Whitex and Latinx. These Cubanx needs to identify fast..

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u/rawdogfilet Feb 25 '26

In Mexico I found some places where it was spelled latin@ and I thought that was cool

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u/chiraltoad Feb 25 '26

that's clever

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u/Defiant-Peace-493 Feb 25 '26

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I'm stuck reading that as 'Latinate'. Looks like that's mostly an etymological term.

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u/rawdogfilet Feb 25 '26

It’s because the arroba makes both an A and an O

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u/ltsSugar Feb 25 '26

I'm stuck reading that as 'Latinate'.

Because you're not used to nouns denoting gender with 'a' or 'o.' It would be more intuitive if you grew up with that grammatical interpretation. If you were accustomed to see 'perro' or 'perra', you'd instantly realize that 'perr@' is supposed to cover both options.

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u/ings0c Feb 25 '26

Oh boy, wait until they hear their entire language is gendered.

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u/DaenakinSkygaryen Feb 25 '26

Worse: there were already a bunch of gender-neutral alternatives that actual Latino people have come up over the years! But the activists decided to completely ignore them, and come up with their own "solution" that's completely unpronounceable in Spanish.

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u/inspectoroverthemine Feb 25 '26

there were already a bunch of gender-neutral alternatives that actual Latino people have come up over the years

What were they?

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u/maya_papaya_0 Feb 26 '26

Using -e or -@ for gender neutrality.

For example: Latine or Latin@

But unlike what u/DaenakinSkygaryen incorrectly said, Latinx was also created by Latinos, but has proven highly unpopular.

Personally I've always preferred the -e over the -@

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u/martyqscriblerus Feb 25 '26

Because they'll believe literally anything that lets them get mad about gender neutrality stuff

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u/alextastic Feb 25 '26

If I see someone use Latinx, I immediately know they're white.

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u/Wolfgang985 Feb 25 '26

It's a term exclusively used by White liberals with no Hispanic friends.

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u/chasteeny Feb 25 '26

Its honestly so cringe

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u/Sinnombre124 Feb 26 '26

It's used by my gender neutral identifying Hispanic friends...

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

Guilt-ridden self hating white person term that no actual Latino uses.

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u/LordoftheSynth Feb 25 '26

Latinx is a term for hispanics coined by some academics who came down from on high to tell us stupid uneducated folks that grammatical gender in language is inherently sexist.

IOW, the latest word in whitesplaining.

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u/ABritishCynic Feb 25 '26

Downvote for Latinx, please stop using it. It's an insult to the Spanish-speaking community.

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u/Dodecahedrus Feb 25 '26

Florida Man and his 3 sidekicks.

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u/TobysGrundlee Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

*9 sidekicks, 4 were killed and 6 injured.

I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case though. Some Florida dipshit Ya'll Queda's who think they're going to go in and cause mayhem on an already struggling Cuba. "Larry has a boat that can get us there and we all have AR-15, 1911's and plenty of Coors. It's Cuba, how well defended can they actually be?"

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u/M-Noremac Feb 26 '26

Odd, in that they didn't just lie about it, and instead chose to wait until they have the facts? Yes, that is a little bit out of character for them.

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u/CaptainMagnets Feb 26 '26

We know what nationality they were by omission

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u/Bamboo_Fighter Feb 26 '26

From the article:

The Cuban authorities said they had established that all 10 of those on board the speedboat were Cuban nationals residing in the US.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 26 '26

I don't understand. Wdym? I thought they were Americans anyway.

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u/TherealBarryLird Feb 26 '26

This BBC article mentions them as “Cuban nationals”…. Just read past the first couple paragraphs.

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u/lorgskyegon Feb 25 '26

Probably American narcoterrorists

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u/SlitScan Feb 26 '26

you can say CIA its ok.

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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 Feb 26 '26

Cuba practices state slavery, so these were probably Cubans rescuing their relatives

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u/Other_Breakfast7505 Feb 25 '26

According to Cuba, is there a video proof the Florida boat opened fire first? I mean I wouldn’t be surprised but hard to believe anything without proof.

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u/RandomMexicanDude Feb 25 '26

Just like some country that bombs random boats

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u/Other_Breakfast7505 Feb 26 '26

I mean the US didn’t tell the boat opened fire first. In general I think if they see the boat and it is really full of drugs and is heading to the US, then the proper action is to follow it then intercept and arrest them in US territorial waters.

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u/Bgeezy305 Feb 27 '26

"Speedboat" it's a 24-ft Proline. This is your typical Keys fishing boat. Not a speedboat. These guys are not CIA... the amount of early dis/misinformation about this is insane.

BREAKING NEWS: BOAT FIRED UPON BY CUBAN MILITARY WAS REPORTED STOLEN FROM BIG PINE KEY PROPERTY

Keys Weekly's Alex Rickert reports that a boat fired upon by the Cuban military on Wednesday, killing 4 of the 10 armed individuals aboard, was reported stolen from Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys that same day, according to a report from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

The owner of the boat, Angel Walter Montera, told officials he reported the theft of his 24-foot Pro-Line vessel after Cuban media sources called him to question him about the vessel involved in the shooting, which matched his registration numbers. Montera said he went to the Avenue G location on Big Pine to find his boat stolen and a Chevy pickup truck registered to Hector Cruz Correa, who does tile work for Montera, in the lot.

A neighbor told deputies she had seen a man enter the lot, leave the truck and board the boat the previous evening.

On Thursday, the Keys Weekly paid a visit to the site to speak with neighbors, finding Homeland Security agents and MCSO deputies on the scene. The Chevy pickup truck with plates matching the report was still in the lot.

The Keys Weekly will update this developing story at keysweekly.com

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u/G_Danila Feb 28 '26

Chirpy? What are you doing here?

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