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Cuban authorities said connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) that a 5th unit subordinate of a U.S.-flagged speedboat progressive successful a shootout with the seashore guard past week has died of his wounds.
Prosecutors person filed coercion charges against the surviving unit members of the boat, suspected of trying to bring weapons to Cuba successful hopes of destabilizing the communist authorities successful Havana.
One of the six survivors, identified arsenic Roberto Alvarez Avila, "died connected March 4 from wounds helium received," the Interior Ministry said successful a connection connected authorities TV.
The shootout occurred connected February 25 erstwhile a seashore defender vessel approached the vas to request identification, and the unit responded by opening fire.
The Cuban seashore defender changeable and killed 4 different radical aboard the boat, which came wrong 1 nautical mile of the Caribbean island's shores.
Cuban officials accidental the speedboat, registered successful the United States, was carrying firearms of assorted calibers, including 14 rifles, 11 pistols and astir 13,000 rounds of ammunition.
The Interior Ministry added that the probe into the incidental was advancing with the practice of U.S. authorities, "including grounds sharing and different associated actions."
At slightest 2 of those aboard the speedboat were U.S. citizens, 1 of whom was killed.
U.S. President Donald Trump's medication has made nary concealed of its tendency for authorities alteration successful Cuba, imposing an vigor blockade aft the ouster of leftist autocrat Nicolas Maduro successful Venezuela, which was the communist island's apical supplier of oil.
