The delegations of Cuba and the United States held a tense meeting this Tuesday at the UN General Assembly, where the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, accused the US ambassador to the organization, Mike Waltz, of lying and expressing himself “rudely.”
Rodríguez asked the presidency of the Assembly to intervene while Waltz gave his speech during the plenary session on Washington’s sanctions on the island: “The United States not only lies, deviating from the topic, but also expresses itself in a rude and arrogant manner,” said the chancellor.
“(He expresses himself) with a lack of culture, rudeness and rudeness that is not accepted in this democratic venue. This is the United Nations General Assembly, it is not a Signal group or the House of Representatives,” added the Cuban foreign minister.
️Chancellor of Cuba @BrunoRguezP in the face of the rude and rude speech of the US representative in #AGNU80.#TumbaElLoqueo pic.twitter.com/YiBR69HBbW
— Cuban Foreign Ministry (@CubaMINREX) October 28, 2025
In response, Waltz said he was “very aware of the location we are talking about,” and stated that this is also not “an illegitimate communist legislature in Havana.”
“This is a place where we speak with facts, and the truth is that the Cuban regime has undermined the democracies of our hemisphere. It has oppressed its own people and steals from them so that, I quote, the members of the regime can maintain their elite status,” he said.
Furthermore, referring to Rodríguez’s comment on Signal, he added that he does not need to say these words “in any type of chat”: “I say it in front of everyone, and it is well known in the Western Hemisphere by those who pay attention.”
Before the Cuban Foreign Minister’s interruption, Waltz called the General Assembly meeting “political theater,” in which Cuba “tries to convince its international allies and the Cuban people that the world does not blame it for its attacks on the fundamental freedoms of its citizens and for the despicable economic consequences of its policies.”
The UN General Assembly is holding today and tomorrow a debate and subsequent vote on its non-binding resolution on the embargo/blockade by the United States towards the Caribbean country.
The presidents of the United States and Argentina, Donald Trump and Javier Milei, could crack this week the almost unanimity that Cuba had amassed against Washington’s sanctions on the island, according to diplomatic sources consulted by EFE.
Waltz asked member countries to abstain from voting or vote against the resolution, and stated that the blockade imposed by the US “is something totally false” and that it is “propaganda.”
Before Waltz, countries such as Iraq, Barbados, Singapore and Turkey agreed on the need to lift the sanctions, which they said translate into “everyday difficulties” for ordinary Cubans, such as shortages of basic products or electricity outages.
