Nigeria, Feb. 27 -- This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged "narco-boats" and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit drugs, Cuba had its turn at engaging a boat with "a known history of criminal and violent activity".

On the morning of February 25, the speedboat in question was identified in Cuban territorial waters. Registered in Florida in the United States, it approached, according to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, "up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones, Corralillo municipality in the Villa Clara province." When encountered by Cuba's Border Guard Troops, those...