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“It's good the fire we put into it,” said Roberto Henry Figueredo, a resident of Havana, reacting to the shooting against a boat that left four dead, according to a series of interviews conducted in the capital by the Associated Press (AP).
The man argued that, in his opinion, those who carried out the act were "testing the strength" of the country to see how far they could go "if no one stands up to them," and he asserted that if they are shot at, "we will take the bullets."
Another Havana resident interviewed by AP, Efraín Scotland, questioned the armed action.
"But what the hell! Those people are being paid to do it and they say: well, let's go to Cuba. And they come, even risking their lives, because imagine, they even confiscated their weapons," he expressed. In his view, "that doesn't bring down a nation."
A third resident, Rosa Larrondo, believed that the incident could increase tension. "I suppose things will get more tense. We'll see what happens," she stated.
He also described what happened as "a violation of the sovereignty of the Cuban people."
The statements collected by AP reflect diverse positions in the Cuban capital following the shooting of the vessel, an event that resulted in four fatalities and has elicited mixed reactions regarding the use of force and its potential consequences.
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