Rubio: US to verify incident after Cuba says 4 killed on speedboat
· Yahoo NewsSTORY: :: Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis / February 25, 2026:: Rubio says the U.S. will investigate incident involving Cuban forces' killing of four aboard a Florida-tagged boat:: Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State"I don't know who has possession of the vessel, which is the first thing we would want to have. We obviously want to have access to these people if they are American citizens or U.S. residents. But I'm not going to speculate now because right now, still a lot of the information that's out there is information that's been provided by the Cubans. We are going to verify that information independently and reach our own conclusions.“:: Cuba says the boat entered its waters and opened fire on a Cuban patrol"And there are a number of things that could have happened here. But I'm not even going to speculate as to what it could have been. It's a wide range of things. But suffice it to say, it is highly unusual to see shootouts in open sea like that. It's not something that happens every day. It's something, frankly, that hasn't happened with Cuba in a very long time. But we're going to find out. We're not going to base our conclusions on what they've told us. And I'm very, very confident that we will know the full story of what happened here."Rubio told reporters this was not a U.S. operation and that people from U.S. government were not involved.Rubio added that the status quo in Cuba was unsustainable and that the island needed to change "dramatically."