Cuba's communist regime brought its confrontational tactics into the halls of the United Nations last week, triggering a heated showdown with U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz.
Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla shouts toward US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Michael Waltz during the annual debate on the US economic embargo on Cuba at UN Headquarters in New York, October 27, 2026.Olga Fedorova/EPA/ShutterstockWaltz, a former Green Beret and President Donald Trump's envoy to the UN, had just wrapped up a forum exposing alleged human rights abuses under Havana's brutal government when Cuban Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán and members of his delegation angerly confronted attendees, according to footage obtained by the New York Post.
The video appeared to show a member of the Cuban delegation assaulting Waltz spokesman J.P. Freire while attempting to snatch his cell phone as he filmed the heated arguement.
NEW: @USAmbUN Mike Waltz just got into a shouting match on the floor of the general assembly with Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
"He's not going to intimidate me in the United States of America
