What Is Cuba Saying?
What is Miami Saying?
Yes, yesterday -- February 25th, 2026 -- the Cuban Coast Guard killed four men in a boat approaching the island, and six other men in the heavily armed boat were injured. That much is undisputed but the rest will be likely disputed.
Cuba's most notable journalist is Lazaro Manuel Alonso. Most Cubans believe what he tells them. Many others do too. Lazaro has over 306,000 followers on Facebook alone!! This week he has been telling Cubans about the unexplained number of fires that are roiling the island, with some believing that they involve ongoing terror attacks from nearby Miami.
When Lazaro Manuel Alonso reported on this fire on Facebook this week, he said: "lhe fires in recent days are very worrying. This one, which occurred in Playa..." Thus, many Cubans were not totally surprised that yesterday -- February 25th, 2026 -- the Cuban Coast Guard got in a deadly gunfight with a heavily armed boat that Cuba believed was planning a terrorist attack on the island.
Now today -- February 26th, 2026 -- the world is being told about yesterday's deadly gunfight on Cuba's northern coast just below Florida. It made the news despite other events that include major wars as well massive talks about other impending wars.
In the U. S. the three legacy news networks -- NBC, CBS, and ABC -- still get about 20 million viewers at 6:30 PM each night. The graphic above shows how NBC News began its opening report on Cuba Kills Four On U. S. Boat. The top NBC News anchor is Cuban-American Tom Llamas who has reported extensively about President Trump's desire to orchestrate a regime in Cuba. Needless to say, the U. S. coverage of things like yesterday's Cuba-Miami gunfight will differ from how Cuban journalists such as Lazaro Manuel Alonso describe it. For example, at NBC News the Cuban-American anchor Tom Llamas depended on Cuban-American Jose Diaz-Balart to deliever the long report on the deadly gunfight yesterday off Cuba's coast.
This was Jose Diaz-Balart yesterday delivering the opening NBC News report on the Cuban gunfight. The father of Jose Diaz-Balart was Rafael Diaz-Balart, a top Minister in the Batista dictatorship that was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. Rafael fled to nearby Florida where he became a rich and powerful man advocating for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba.
This photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart flanked in Florida with his four sons, one of whom was born in Havana while the other three were born in Florida. Two of the sons --Lincoln and Mario -- became long-time very powerful U. S. Congressmen representing Miami in Washington; Rafael Jr. became a very rich banker; and, as mentioned, Jose became a top news anchor at NBC and Telemundo.
The saga that chronicles the riveting connection of Rafael Diaz-Balart and Fidel Castro highlights the ongoing intrigue and fascination with US-Cuba relations, especially the Batista dictarship, the Cuban Revolution, and Revolutionary Cuba. Both Rafael and Fidel were born in 1926 in southeast Cuba in the town of Banes. In 1948 Fidel, who had been Cuba's Athlete of the Year, married Rafael's sister Mirta. Rafael and Fidel were Law School classmates at the University of Havana. But Rafael became a powerful Minister in the brutal Batista dictatorship; Fidel's Revolution ousted Batista, chasing Rafael to Florida where he helped create Little Havana in Miami as a rich and powerful colossal that has tried mightily since 1959 to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Yes, it is true that Rafael died at age 79 in Florida in 2005 and Fidel died at age 90 in Havana in 2016. But their legacies still dominate things like yesterday's deadly gunfight just off Cuba's northern coast.
May they both Rest in Peace!!
May the Cuban Revolution be remembered!!
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