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

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. “Cuba looks like it is ready to fall,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

President Donald Trump’s decision to seize Venezuela’s former dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and bring him to America for trial is a win for the United States and a strategic loss for Washington’s enemies.

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 said the troops died as "victims of a new criminal act of aggression and state terrorism...carried out by the United States."

The U.S. military captures Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, threatening Cuba's economy as the nation loses a key provider of oil supplies for communist country's energy sector.

Cuba confirms 32 intelligence personnel killed in U.S. operation that seized Maduro, exposing extensive Cuban involvement in Venezuela's military systems.

US President Donald Trump threatens Mexico and says Cuban regime will fall after capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro

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.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado expresses gratitude to President Donald Trump for ‘bringing Maduro to justice’ on ‘Hannity.’