October 27, 2026
The Cuban delegation confronts Waltz, on October 27, 2026, at the UN General Assembly.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla responded on Tuesday to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz during the General Assembly debate on the draft resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island.
In a point of order, the Cuban foreign minister accused the U.S. government of resorting to falsehoods, exerting pressure on member states, and disrespecting the people and government of Cuba.
“The United States not only lies in a crude and arrogant manner; it also undermines the dignity of member states, exerts pressure, and offends the dignity of the people and government of Cuba,” he said.
Mike Waltz checks his notes, while the Cuban delegation asks for accountability
Rodríguez Parrilla addressed Waltz directly and challenged his arguments during the session. “Mr. Walsh: you are lying again. I hope you have better performances in your future political posts on the National Security Council, because here, at the United Nations, your performance is very poor. Familiarize yourself better with the document you have in your hand before coming to read it,” he stated.
The head of Cuban diplomacy rejected attempts to divert attention from the central theme of the session—dedicated to the U.S. embargo—through accusations he described as baseless.
“We will not accept Washington’s attempt to replace the debate on the embargo—which is what this Assembly is examining—with a string of unsubstantiated accusations,” he maintained.
The foreign minister added that the U.S. delegation came to the UN to repeat falsehoods and pressure other countries, rather than engage in dialogue and listen to member states.
Washington Puts on a Fictional Show Before the General Assembly
The U.S. delegation opened its statement with a history lesson so creative that even the timeline had to speak up: it portrayed Ronald Reagan warning the Cuban people in 1979, when he was not yet president—he arrived at the White House in 1981—.
With such “rigor,” the rest of the narrative sounds more like a fictional script than a multilateral debate: a succession of grandiloquent assertions, conveniently adjusted dates, and well-timed silences, presented to the Assembly as if they were revealed truths.
The usual litany followed—confiscations, prisoner camps, forced labor, and a supposed 67-year-long lesson—all delivered in the tone of someone who believes that repeating an accusation many times turns it into proof.
Cuba is not a threat; the embargo is
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla asked the president of the General Assembly to call the U.S. representative to order for the insults directed at the Cuban delegation.
Likewise, the Cuban foreign minister thanked Washington for the publicity it is providing, as he put it, for Cuban tourist destinations and demanded that U.S. citizens be allowed to travel freely to the island.
This is the thirty-fourth time that the UN’s highest deliberative body has submitted for consideration the draft resolution titled The Need to End the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba, which will be put to a vote this tomorrow.
Source: Radio Havana Cuba, translation Ed Newman