Cubans Are ‘Scared and Nervous’ After US Attack Destroys Morale

Cubans are on high alert and the streets are under heavy guard, bracing for what comes next as officials mourned the 32 members of its security services killed in the US operation to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

For years, Havana has provided bodyguards, operatives and analysts to protect the president of Venezuela, working like a parallel secret service and bolstering intelligence operations. In exchange, Venezuela has been sending heavily discounted fuel, some of it used to generate electricity, that supplies about a third of the island’s needs.

But any sense that the Cuban operatives were a bulwark against ...