HAVANA: Tens of thousands of Cubans crowded Friday into an open-air plaza known as the “Anti-Imperialist Tribune” across from the US Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the US government release former president Nicolás Maduro. The crowd clutched Cuban and Venezuelan flags as part of a demonstration organized by the government as tensions between Cuba and the US remain heightened after the US struck Caracas on Jan. 3 and arrested Maduro. “The entire Nation rises up!” wrote Cuba’s Foreign Ministry on X.