A man in Havana shows the official website of the Cuban government on his phone, where images of some of the 32 Cuban officers and soldiers killed during the US military intervention in Venezuela are being displayed. Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images
For more than two decades, the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes denied that soldiers sent by Havana were present in Venezuela. They insisted that only civilians were in the country assisting with health and social assistance missions.
During his first term as US president
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