The Ministry of the Interior (MININT) reported this Wednesday the confiscation of two vessels found in remote coastal areas of Camagüey and Guantánamo.
According to the Border Guard Troops Directorate, both confiscations were formalized through resolutions from the head of the National Department of Port Captains dated May 27, 2026, although the findings occurred months earlier.
The first vessel is a fast fiberglass boat, white and blue in color, with the labels "Cynthia SLI534" on the starboard side and "FDC 002123" on the port side, equipped with a Yamaha outboard motor of 175 HP and four cylinders.
The Border Guard Troops located it on December 3, 2025, in Cayo Cruz, Esmeralda municipality, in the province of Camagüey, and its confiscation was formalized through Resolution No. 03/2026.
That same boat had already been reported as a finding by the Nuevitas Captaincy at the end of 2025, when an initial period for claiming it was opened. Since no owner came forward, formal confiscation proceeded in May 2026.
The second vessel is a white aluminum boat, with no additional identifying information—no name, registration number, or recorded engine—found on January 8, 2026, in the area known as Mesa Abajo, Playa Rufino, in Cayo Güin, Baracoa municipality, in Guantánamo province.
Its confiscation was formalized through Resolution No. 04/2026, although the Port Captaincy of Guantánamo did not publicly report the discovery until April 9, 2026, more than three months after the actual date of the finding.
Both confiscations are based on Resolution No. 1/2015 from the Minister of the Interior, which regulates the procedures for the Cuban State to appropriate vessels found in the country’s territorial waters.
The mechanism states that those potentially affected have 20 calendar days from the publication in a national circulation newspaper to file a written complaint with the head of the Border Guard Troops Directorate.
This practice is systematic. In May 2026, the MININT confiscated a Bahamian-flagged speedboat called "Bombay 2," which was found in November 2025 also in the area of Esmeralda, Camagüey.
Cayo Cruz and Cayo Güin are remote coastal areas, often linked to attempts at illegal emigration or the passage of derelict vessels, making these locations frequent sites for maritime discoveries that result in confiscations in favor of the state.
So far in 2026, the MININT has published several confiscations of this type, a trend that repeats year after year, and which in 2022 included the capture of 11 fast boats by Border Guard Troops.
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