Venezuelan Fighter Shoots Down US F-16 over Cuba

[(Alex)]

Conflicting reports are emerging from Cuba today that allege the shooting down of an American F-16 Fighter Jet by a Venezuelan Sukhoi-30MK2 Russian Fighter Jet participating in large scale Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces wargames in Pinar del Rio province.

The United States has denied these reports and state that their F-16 Fighter Jet crashed off the coast of Cuba due to an ‘unknown’ mechanical malfunction with its pilot safely rescued after ejecting.

More curiously, however, and almost immediately after Russian Military Analysts reporting on this shoot down to the Kremlin, Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro, the brother of the ailing Cuban Leader Fidel Castro and present leader of Cuba, issued this statement