Cuba stated that 32 members of its military and intelligence services were killed by U.S. forces during the raid capturing Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela on January 3, 2026, according to an X post by @LucasFoxNews shared over the past hour ending at 8:45 a.m. UTC. The claim emerges amid evaluations of U.S. Delta Force operations at Venezuelan military sites, including the Catia La Mar air defense base where La Guaira Governor shared a damage assessment video this morning identifying the former site of air defense unit 393 GMDA, as posted on X by @ConflictsW before 7:45 a.m. UTC. Separately, a Cloudflare blog post examined a BGP routing anomaly in Venezuela linked to a prior blackout, as shared on X by @blackorbird during the reporting window from 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. UTC, quoting analysis from loworbitsecurity.com.
