US EditionVenezuela's Military Buries Soldiers Slain in US Operation to Capture Maduro
Venezuelan officials call the U.S. operation a war crime and vow to defend national sovereignty after at least 24 soldiers died, with prosecutors launching an investigation.
- On Wednesday, Venezuela's military held a mass funeral in Caracas to begin burying at least 24 soldiers killed in a United States weekend operation targeting former President Nicolás Maduro.
- The weekend operation targeted former President Nicolás Maduro, aiming to capture him and bring him to the United States on drug charges, directly preceding funerals in Caracas on Wednesday.
- Men carried wooden caskets cloaked in the Venezuelan flag past uniformed officers as music from a military orchestra and singing from a nearby church filled the state-owned cemetery, while families completed burial paperwork and the Armed National Guard patrolled the grounds.
- Venezuela's prosecutors will investigate the deaths, with Attorney General Tarek William Saab describing the operation as a `war crime`, while the Venezuelan military vowed to defend the nation's sovereignty.
- The announcement from Cuba's government on Sunday that 32 Cuban military and police officers died prompted two days of mourning on the Caribbean island.
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Los Angeles TimesBy ARIANA CUBILLOS y MATÍAS DELACROIX CARACAS (AP) — Families of Venezuelans gathered at a mass funeral in Caracas organized by the army for dozens of soldiers who died during a U.S. operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro. ___This is a photo gallery selected by AP photo editors. ___This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of an artificial generational intelligence tool.
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