WORLD.- This Wednesday the attorney general of Florida, James Uthmeierannounced the opening of an investigation after the attack Cuban authorities to a boat registered in this state of the United States that left four dead, and assured that the “communists will be held accountable.”
“I have ordered the State Prosecutor’s Office to work with our federal, state and law enforcement partners to begin an investigation. The Cuban Government cannot be trusted and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable,” Uthmeier said on his social networks.
Cuba killed crew members of a United States boat
This announcement came hours after it was reported that the Cuban Border Guard Troop killed four crew members and injured six others on a speedboat from the United States because, according to the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), he did not obey when they asked him to stop in territorial waters and shot at the police boat.
The incident, according to the official statement from the Minint, occurred on Wednesday morning, when the Cuban authorities detected “an offending speedboat within Cuban territorial waters with the license plate of Florida, United States, with folio FL7726SH.”
Cuban-American congressman demands official response after attack on United States boat
The congressman Cuban-American Carlos Giménezfrom Florida, demanded “an immediate investigation of this massacre,” in which also The commander of the Cuban ship was injuredalthough the Minint has not identified the members of the boat or their possible motivations.
“United States authorities must determine whether any of the victims are US citizens or legal residents and establish exactly what happened. The regime in Cuba must be relegated to the dustbin of history for its countless crimes against the community,” he demanded. Giménez in a statement.
The event occurs in the midst of growing pressure from Washington on Havana after the American intervention in Venezuela which led to the capture of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, on January 3, after which the United States cut off the supply of Venezuelan crude oil to the island.
But similar incidents have been reported in recent years. Like in 2022, when a US speedboat injured Cuban officer when firing near Villa Clara and, in another case, another American boat collided with a Minint patrol boat, which caused the sinking of the first and the death of several crew members.
In the current incident, the Florida boat approached “northeast of the El Pino channel, in Falcones Key,” where a unit with five members of the Border Guard Troops approached “for identification,” but “fire was opened on the Cuban troops from the offending boat,” according to the Minint.
Legislator María Elvira Salazar, also a Cuban-American from Florida, commented that she is still “waiting for official information from the US authorities.”
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