In this Cuban Interior Ministry statement claiming four US speedboat passengers were killed in self-defense after their vessel allegedly fired first on Cuban border guards in territorial waters near Villa Clara province on February 25, 2026. It appears that several international outlets, including BBC and Bloomberg, corroborate the incident, noting the boat's Florida registration and six injuries on the US side, escalating US-Cuba maritime tensions rooted in decades of embargo and migration disputes. Replies on this X post express outrage and calls for US retaliation or regime change, reflecting polarized views on Cuba's communist government amid recent migrant interdiction spikes, with over 7,000 sea arrivals reported in early 2026 by US Coast Guard data.

BREAKING: The Cuban government just announced that they shot and killed four passengers on an American speedboat. pic.twitter.com/r99RqY38qi

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 25, 2026

Reportedly the island is going to run out of fuel writ large within the next 3-4 weeks given the oil embargo we've been conducting.

Will wait for further details on the boat and occupants, but could escalate faster than anticipated down there.

They were just trying to get authentic Cuban sandos good grief Cuba.

An ocean speed boat should easily outrun a patrol boat. Something isn't adding up.

Cuba is about to get a Churchill sized cigar put in a most uncomfortable place

🇺🇸🇨🇺 A Florida-registered speedboat entered Cuban waters yesterday.

When Cuban border guards approached it, the crew opened fire.

Cuba killed 4 of them and wounded 6 more.

The boat was American-registered. Nobody's talking about this.@AZ_Intel_ @sentdefender pic.twitter.com/8jQx5kBdIm

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 25, 2026

RDV-1992 said:

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This seems like a "wait 48 hours to form an opinion" situation.

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Absolutely.

Of course, the American flagged boat could have been drug runners. Drug smugglers would have reacted in that way.

We have our own drug smugglers here, too.

Either way, that's beside the point that we need to help usher in a new government, a democracy, in Cuba. It's amazing to me that we have allowed a country that is 90 miles off our shores to institute one of the most draconian forms of communism in the world for the last 70 years.

Those people have been suffering for two or three generations and there has really been no reason we should not have liberated them.

Hell, the Marines at Guantanamo could probably overrun the entire country on their own.

Florida Man?

Sure seems like a stupid games, as said above.

Sounds like Cuba defending her borders. We would have probably done the same.

I am curious if they were smuggling legal goods in illegally, illegal goods in illegally, people in, or people out.

CanyonAg77 said:

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Sure seems like a stupid games, as said above.

Sounds like Cuba defending her borders. We would have probably done the same.

I am curious if they were smuggling legal goods in illegally, illegal goods in illegally, people in, or people out.

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Sounds like they were defending their lives in a gun battle...if we are to believe the communist *******s to begin with.

I am skeptical.

4 said:

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Of course, the American flagged boat could have been drug runners. Drug smugglers would have reacted in that way.

We have our own drug smugglers here, too.

Either way, that's beside the point that we need to help usher in a new government, a democracy, in Cuba. It's amazing to me that we have allowed a country that is 90 miles off our shores to institute one of the most draconian forms of communism in the world for the last 70 years.

Those people have been suffering for two or three generations and there has really been no reason we should not have liberated them.

Hell, the Marines at Guantanamo could probably overrun the entire country on their own.

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And unlike Somalia, they actually have beautiful women to offer too. Talk about curves...plus low expectations...potential wifey material for many a young lad here...

I wonder if that Cuban gunboat had enough fuel to get back to shore?

Four people aboard a Florida-registered speedboat were killed in a shootout with the Cuban Coast Guard after they allegedly opened fire when authorities attempted to carry out an identification check, according to Cuba's Interior Ministry.

The confrontation left four dead and six others injured; the wounded were evacuated and treated, officials said.


This is suspect

According to the New York Times, citing an unnamed U.S. official, the vessel fired on by the Cuban Border Guard was part of a flotilla to extract relatives out of Cuba and was not a U.S. naval or Coast Guard vessel. pic.twitter.com/hoNZVrw1jX

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 25, 2026

How can BBC and Bloomberg corroborate? How would they have witnessed it? That seems odd.

milner79 said:

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Has anyone seen Crockett and Tubbs?

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Crockett cant swim

milner79 said:

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Has anyone seen Crockett and Tubbs?

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HoustonAggie11 said:

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They were just trying to get authentic Cuban sandos.

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Worth every bit of risk.

agsquirrel97 said:

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Waiting for progressives to update their status to include Cuban flag in their profile and proclaim the sovereignty of Cuba and its right to defend itself from illegal immigrants/invaders

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But I thought that liberals were for open borders, what changed?
Cuba maybe still sore about that San Juan Hill thing? Sheesh, get over it.

4 said:

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Of course, the American flagged boat could have been drug runners. Drug smugglers would have reacted in that way.

We have our own drug smugglers here, too.

Either way, that's beside the point that we need to help usher in a new government, a democracy, in Cuba. It's amazing to me that we have allowed a country that is 90 miles off our shores to institute one of the most draconian forms of communism in the world for the last 70 years.

Those people have been suffering for two or three generations and there has really been no reason we should not have liberated them.

Hell, the Marines at Guantanamo could probably overrun the entire country on their own.

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Doing Trump's work for him.

CanyonAg77 said:

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Sure seems like a stupid games, as said above.

Sounds like Cuba defending her borders. We would have probably done the same.

I am curious if they were smuggling legal goods in illegally, illegal goods in illegally, people in, or people out.

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Why are you assuming a country's gender???

Maybe they were trying to pull a Panama!!