The remains of 32 Cuban officers killed during a U.S. strike on Venezuela were repatriated to their homeland. The soldiers were part of the security detail of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during the Jan. 3 raid on his residence to seize the former leader and bring him to the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges.
Venezuela´s acting President Delcy Rodríguez used her first state of the union message to advocate for opening the crucial state-run oil industry to more foreign investment following the Trump administration´s pledge to seize control of Venezuelan crude sales.
This gallery was curated by photojournalist Moises Castillo, based in Guatemala City.
FILE - People line up in a rain shower to pay their final respects to Cuban officers who were killed in the U.S. operation that captured President Nicolas Maduro, in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 15, 2026 . (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
FILE - Workers at the presidential palace iron a tablecloth before the start of a press conference by Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz and Ilan Goldfajn, the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
FILE - Emelyn Torres and Maria Cristina Fernandez, the sister and grandmother of Edilson Torres, a Venezuelan police officer who died in prison after being detained on accusations of treason, embrace during his wake at his home in Guanare, Venezuela, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - Members of the Sanchez family work at the Salinas de Cumaraguas salt flats on the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - Kelly Cristina da Cruz cools off in a public shower in the Rocinha favela amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
FILE - A calf is ringed by cattle in a pen at the Agricultural and Livestock Market in Canuelas, Argentina, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
FILE - Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez, center, smiles flanked by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, right, and her brother, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, after making a statement to the press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - Residents play dominoes in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
FILE - A man wearing necklaces and a padlock as an earring walks through Havana, Cuba, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramón Espinosa, File)
FILE - A protester holds a defaced poster of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, during a rally in support of anti-government protests in Iran, outside Iran's embassy in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
FILE - A plane drops water to battle wildfires in Epuyen, Patagonia, Argentina, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Palacios, File)