Cubans lowered flags before dawn Monday to mourn 32 officers who died in the weekend strike against the president of Venezuela.

After the deaths of the two men, it was Nicolás Maduro - trained and instructed in Cuba - who became Chávez's handpicked successor, chosen partly because he was acceptable to the Castro brothers. He represented continuity for the Cuban revolution as much as the Venezuelan one.

Cuba has acknowledged the deaths of 32 Cubans in the American military operation that ousted Venezuela's leader over the weekend.

In the hours after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Trump already seemed to be setting his sights on another authoritarian regime in Latin America: the communist island of Cuba.

HAVANA -- Cuba says 32 Cuban security officers were killed in U.S. attack on Venezuela.

With his attack on Venezuela, President Trump says the Monroe Doctrine is back, reviving a more than 200-year-old foreign policy idea. In Cuba, residents brace for what that could mean for them.

They hope that the men who have made their country miserable, prompting the recent emigration of a quarter of the country’s population, may be next on Donald Trump’s list of problems in his hemisphere that he is willing to solve by force.

Cuba strongly condemned US military action against Venezuela during a heated United Nations Security Council session, calling it a criminal act and a violation of international law and the UN Charter.

An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official

A federal indictment accuses the ousted leader and his wife of enriching themselves as they conspired to flood the United States with cocaine, among other charges.