September 22, 2026
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reacted Tuesday to Donald Trump’s speech before the UN General Assembly and rejected the U.S. president’s claims about Cuba. Trump addressed the United Nations today.
The foreign minister stated on X that Washington is “unable to accept” that Cuba is an independent and sovereign country, and called Trump’s statements false. He also maintained that Cuba poses no threat to the United States or to other nations.
The Cuban delegation walked out of the UN General Assembly hall during U.S. President Donald Trump while he described the island’s government in his speech as “a failed state” and said it “will fall.”
Cuban delegation walks out on Trump’s talk
The Cuban foreign minister had denounced the preceding day at a CELAC ministerial meeting declaring “the unprecedented intensification of the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba, including an energy blockade whose effects are equivalent to a naval blockade—which constitutes an act of war under international law. Added to this are the so-called secondary sanctions, a violent media offensive, and the systematic threat of military aggression.”
In that context, he condemned the use “of militarization as an instrument of domination, under the pretext of combating drug trafficking or nonexistent narco-terrorism. Punitive tariffs have been imposed on the economies of several countries in our region. Initiatives are being promoted that seek to divide us into ‘allies and adversaries,’ and attempts are being made to weaken the mechanisms for consultation and integration that we have worked so hard to build.”
Trump’s speech this Tuesday at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York stands as one of the most disrespectful and reprehensible toward nations that defend multilateralism, peace, and international law.
With his imperialist arrogance, Trump reaffirms the savage era in international relations that his administration began on January 3 with the invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of the South American nation’s constitutional president and his wife.
Source: Cubadebate, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English