The bodies of 32 Cuban soldiers and security personnel killed during the US military intervention in Venezuela are due to arrive in Cuba on Thursday for formal military ceremonies and burials.
The Venezuelan government says more than 100 people were killed in the country during the US raid on its capital, Caracas, on 3 January.
The Cubans were working as protection officers for the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, when he was forcibly removed from Venezuelan soil and taken to New York to face drug trafficking charges.
The soldiers' remains will be received with military honours and taken to the Ministry of the Armed Forces in the capital, Havana, where the public can pay their respects.
Events will then be held in municipalities across the island, and a protest is due to take place outside the US embassy on Friday before the bodies are interred.
