United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz found his address to the assembly disrupted by a Cuban minister on Tuesday.
However, Waltz seized the opportunity to underscore the true nature of the Cuban regime. Waltz was addressing the United Nations as it prepared to vote on a resolution condemning the United States for its embargo against Cuba.
According to the Western Journal, the New Republic has reported that this vote has been a recurring event for 33 years, serving as a symbolic gesture. The trend persisted as the United Nations voted 1657, with 12 abstentions, on Wednesday. Waltz had addressed the United Nations the previous day, arguing against the resolution, only to have Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez dredge up his past.
Waltz urged his colleagues to take a different approach this year. He stated, The United States and the Trump administration wants to set the record straight when it comes to this resolution and to correct the fake news, the misinformation, and this false reality the regime seeks to create year after year with this vote.
Waltz described the Cuban regime as "illegitimate and brutal," attempting to portray itself as a victim while openly declaring itself as the enemy of the United States.
Waltz went on to highlight Cuba's support of terrorism, drug trafficking, cartels, and the socialist regime in Venezuela. Rodriguez, in response, accused Waltz of lying in an uncivilized and crude manner, which he deemed unacceptable in a democratic forum.
He reminded Waltz that the United Nations General Assembly was not a Signal chat or the House of Representatives, referencing Waltz's earlier gaffe as national security advisor when he accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in a confidential Signal chat about secret military plans.
Waltz retorted, Im well aware of the location of which were speaking, and this is also not a communist illegitimate legislature in Havana. This is a place where we talk in facts, and the facts are the Cuban regime has undermined democracies in our hemisphere, it has oppressed its own people, and it steals from its own people so that, quote, regime insiders can maintain their elite status.
He added that he didn't need to say this in a chat, but was stating it in front of the entire world.
Rodriguez's attempt to embarrass Waltz backfired, leaving him and his country vulnerable to a powerful counter-argument. The irony of a Cuban official lecturing anyone about decorum in representative government is not lost, given that Cuba is a dictatorship.
The Cuban people are unfamiliar with true republican governance, which explains why millions have fled the regime, many seeking a better life in the United States. If Rodriguez is genuinely concerned about representative government, he should focus on establishing one in his own country.
In a separate development, Ryan Routh, who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, requested on Thursday to be incarcerated in a state that allows assisted suicide. Routh had previously tried to harm himself with a knife.
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