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Shouting match erupts at UN as Cuban foreign minister storms US ambassador's podium amid expulsion of diplomat accused of shoving American official

Marco Rubio with US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz. Rubio signed expulsion paperwork ordering Cuban diplomat Richard Tur de la Concepcion onto a plane to Havana within 24 hours after Tur de la Concepcion lunged at a US…
Marco Rubio with US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz. Rubio signed expulsion paperwork ordering Cuban diplomat Richard Tur de la Concepcion onto a plane to Havana within 24 hours after Tur de la Concepcion lunged at a US…

A dramatic confrontation broke out at the UN General Assembly after Cuba's foreign minister moved toward the US ambassador's podium, triggering a screaming match in which Waltz told him: "This isn't your communist dictatorship — you cannot silence me." The clash follows the expulsion of a Cuban official accused of grabbing and shoving a US diplomat who was filming the confrontation on his phone, with authorities saying he will be put on a plane back to Havana within 24 hours.

Waltz held up photos of Cuban leaders wearing Rolexes and holidaying in Europe while ordinary Cubans sat in the dark, prompting the foreign minister to storm the podium and call him a liar.

Waltz posted video of the confrontation, with US officials heard telling the Cuban delegation: "Back away from this podium."

The foreign minister hit back on X, mocking Waltz's past "incompetence" in a Signal group leak.

The clash came one day before the UN was due to vote on a resolution condemning the US embargo on Cuba.

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