Mike Waltz Unleashes Hell on Communist Cuba at UN Assembly in New York City [FULL]

0:011 secondThank you, Mr. President.

0:066 secondsColleagues, in 1979 then-President Reagan warned the Cuban people.

0:1616 secondsHe warned them.

0:1717 secondsHe said, "Their supposedly communist classless society will result in a sizable elite with

0:3232 secondsmany special privileges, and they have already emerged."

0:3737 secondsThe next year he spoke directly to the Cuban people again, saying, "Since 1959, you have

0:4545 secondsbeen called upon again and again and again to sacrifice, to make one sacrifice after another." And he asked the Cuban people, for what?

0:5757 secondsColleagues, for 67 years the Cuban regime has been telling the world that it has discovered some type of exception to that rule.

1:111 minute, 11 secondsBut the reality is, when Fidel Castro seized power, he confiscated businesses,

1:211 minute, 21 secondsfarms, factories, homes, and the savings of generations of hardworking Cubans.

1:291 minute, 29 secondsBillions in wealth taken, stolen from the people in an instant.

1:361 minute, 36 secondsAnd then when Castro sent thousands of gay people,

1:431 minute, 43 secondsChristians, Afro-Cubans, and others to concentration camps, it was the regime who stripped them of their property and profited from their forced labor.

1:541 minute, 54 secondsEver since, Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, in 1979 then-President Reagan warned the Cuban people. He warned them. He said, “Their supposedly communist classless society will result in a sizable elite with many special privileges, and they have already emerged.” The next year he spoke directly to the Cuban people again, saying, “Since 1959, you have been called upon again and again and again to sacrifice, to make one sacrifice after another.” And he asked the Cuban people, for what? Colleagues, for 67 years the Cuban regime has been telling the world that it has discovered some type of exception to that rule. But the reality is, when Fidel Castro seized power, he confiscated businesses, farms, factories, homes, and the savings of generations of hardworking Cubans. Billions in wealth taken, stolen from the people in an instant. And then when Castro sent thousands of gay people, Christians, Afro-Cubans, and others to concentration camps, it was the regime who stripped them of their property and profited from their forced labor. Ever since, Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared. Well, we know where it went, and today we are here to share it with the world. I hope everyone, Mr. President, is listening to the delegation right now. Imagine what happens when someone asks these questions in Havana, not in a room full of ambassadors and cameras. Imagine what happens to those people if this is the intimidation and disruption that we see.

Yes, I hear that a request for a point of order has been made. In the beginning of this session, I requested that— Yes, I hear. Your Excellency, I know you don’t like to hear this. This is America, my friend. This is the United Nations. This isn’t your communist dictatorship. Mr. Minister, you cannot silence me. I hear you, and at the beginning of this session, I very respectfully requested that the current speaker, whoever it may be, be allowed to conclude before I give the floor to any delegation requesting a point of order. I fervently request you to kindly agree with my request, and you’ll have all the opportunity to speak once the current speaker ends his statement. Please allow the statement to be delivered, and I will give you the opportunity. Please help me in conducting the business in a smooth manner. And you’ll have that right. You are under rule 71 of the rules of procedure of this General Assembly. Respectfully, I request that you fulfill this rule and grant immediately, just now, a point of order, which is a rule and a practice of this General Assembly.

You called him by his name there. Mr. President, rule 71 is crystal clear. I’ll read it for our colleagues here. It says, “A representative rising to a point of order may not speak on the substance of the matter.” The reality is he doesn’t like the substance of what he’s hearing. He doesn’t like the hard truths. And you can come and intimidate all you want. Excellencies, I ask everybody to respectfully— Mr. President, please, this individual needs to back away from this podium. He’s not going to intimidate me in the United States of America like he tries to do to political prisoners. And I ask everybody to go back to their delegations. Back up. Back up, Ambassador. Back away. This isn’t Havana. Go back to your seat. You’re not going to intimidate me. Do you understand who you’re dealing with? This is America. Back up. The rule is clear. This is the substance of the speech. There are no procedural— You can bring people as you want. Please sit down. Sit down. When I resume the meeting, I listen to everybody. You see, I’m here to administer the rules of procedure in a fair manner and in an independent manner. So please go back to your seat. I made a request with great respect to everybody to allow a speaker to conclude the statement. But if you don’t want to do that, if you insist on this, I’ll give you the floor on rule 71, but that has to be restricted only to procedure, not substance.

Mr. President, a point of order. Yes. Respect rule 71 and the practice of this General Assembly, and please grant me just now a point of order. So I take it that you did not accept my request to allow the speaker to conclude. Am I correct in this understanding, Mr. Minister? If that is the case, I’ll grant you this opportunity, but strictly on the condition that it is in accordance with article 71. I resume the meeting, and I give the floor to the representative of Cuba to make a statement on a point of order in accordance with rule 71 of the rules of procedure. You have the floor.

Muchas gracias. Thank you very much, Mr. President. On the basis of article 71 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, I request you to call to order the Permanent Representative of the United States, who is not only lying grossly, but is beneath the dignity of this forum and member states. He is offending the dignity of the people and government of Cuba. Mr. Wallace is lying yet again. And I wish him a better future in other functions, but in the United Nations and in the Security Council, your performance is severely wanting. Please inform yourself much better of the rules of procedure. Issues of procedure, please, not substance.

Okay. I thank the representative of Cuba for his statement on point of order, and your remarks, sir, will be reflected in the records of this meeting. I now request the representative of the United States to resume his statement. You have the floor, sir.

Thank you, Mr. President. Again, I hope everyone is listening. I hope everyone observed this today. This is in a room in a free country with cameras, with ambassadors, with diplomats. Imagine what happens if you dare to speak out under the iron fist of this regime. Imagine what happens when no one is looking. We recently had just-released political prisoners here, and this delegation of supposed diplomats tried to intimidate them, film them, harass them. If this happens here, imagine what happens there. And thank you, Mr. President, for your objectivity. Just for the record, rule 71 is crystal clear, as I just tried to read. It says, “A representative rising to a point of order, as the Cuban delegation just attempted to do, may not speak on the substance of the matter.” I know that you don’t like to hear these hard truths. But I am speaking for the Cuban people. And ever since 1959, this government in Havana would have you believe that everything in Cuba has just disappeared, that they’re the victim, that it’s someone else’s fault. Well, we know where all of those billions of the Cuban people’s assets and wealth have gone. And we’re going to show the world today and all of you as you consider this vote.

Just over a year ago, brave investigative reporters from the Miami Herald got access to the secret financial records from the Cuban regime’s own military conglomerate called GAESA. They revealed billions in profits, billions in assets abroad, billions in cash. $18 billion in fact, $14 billion in cash to be exact. And for context, that’s enough money to pay every single Cuban’s salary for 2 years straight, or to stock every single Cuban pharmacy for over 40 years. That’s enough to buy 2 billion gallons of gasoline, 900 million sacks of rice. Meanwhile, as the regime elites make billions more by shipping doctors and nurses against their will around the world, taking their wages, threatening their families if they refuse to comply. And now the Castro family is doing it again, pocketing the wages of Cubans being sent to fight abroad. And all while humanitarian aid, food, rice, and medicine arrive by the boatload from countries I will list for you today. It comes to Cuban ports and very, very little if anything actually reaches the people. So shelves are still empty. Millions of Cubans are sitting in the dark. Hospitals may be advertised as free, but what they’re free of is medicine. Fuel for everyday Cubans is as rare and expensive as caviar. And Havana comes to this assembly every year with the same explanation, that the money never existed. The medicine vanished. The fuel never came. Well, colleagues, I remember enough from high school physics to know that things don’t just vanish. It was taken. GAESA’s billions, the workers’ stolen wages, the fuel, the medicine, the food. So today I have one simple question for the world that you should all ask yourselves: where did it all go? Well, we brought some photos to show where some of it went. Reagan’s warning about corrupt Cuban elites still holds true, and it started many decades ago.

Let’s start with Castro’s two Rolexes that he proudly wore. You’re looking at the great revolutionary. What’s on his wrist? Two Rolexes worth $40,000 in today’s money. According to the regime’s own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage. It didn’t just start with Castro. This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on. I hear that the representative of Cuba has asked for a point of order. Please, once again, I appeal to allow the speaker to finish, but if you insist on your point of order request, I will grant you that because I’m obligated to do that. So please stay true to rule 71 only on procedure. Thank you. You have the floor.

On the basis of article 71 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly and extended practice, I would like you to call to order the Permanent Representative of the United States for his offensive comments to the dignity of the Cuban government and people. Thank you for your point, which will be reflected in the record of our meeting. I request the distinguished representative of the United States to continue.

Foreign Minister, here’s how this is going to work. Every time you interrupt me and my right to speak here to the world and show your corruption and malfeasance, every time you interrupt me, I’m just going to keep explaining how corrupt this regime is, and I’m going to do it a little more slowly. Next we have, again, the current president of Cuba as the people are starving, wearing another luxury watch. Colleagues, somehow this “blockade” that does not exist, this embargo, I guess doesn’t apply to luxury goods. Somehow those get through to the Cuban regime elites. I have more pictures. I have more pictures of the current president wearing Hermès ties, using Montblanc pens, a jet-set wardrobe that would make New York socialites blush. And he spends his days blaming capitalism for his country’s misery, yet takes full advantage of it. It’s not just watches, colleagues. It’s also a vast real estate empire. Let’s take a look here. This is Nave Pilar, the Castro family’s exclusive seaside retreat in Varadero. You can look this up. You can find this online. It’s quite nice. It has 14,000 square meters of property, swimming pools, marble floors, a private dock, a gym, a sauna, jacuzzis. Let’s keep going. This is the Castro family compound. This one has six bedrooms, a 20-meter swimming pool, and custom woodwork. Hear this, for those who care about the environment: made from cedar imported from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. But colleagues, even 20 homes and all of these lavish compounds aren’t enough. Why settle for mansions by the sea when you can have your own private island? That’s right. The Castro family has their own private island, Cayo Piedra. Again, you can find this if you simply look for it. Look beyond your talking points.

Take a look at this place. Private marina, a yacht, a floating restaurant, lavish guest accommodations, a swimming pool, even a lagoon for pet dolphins. It’s right there on the other side of Cuba, on the south side of Cuba. They have another island, by the way, with exotic animals. Look it up. It has safaris, animals, excursions from all over the world. Somehow, as the Cuban people are sitting in the dark, all of these luxury homes have power. How is that? And why is that? But let me keep going.

Yeah, if you’re wondering where all the money has gone, here’s Fidel’s grandson, Sandro Castro, holding up stacks of money on his own Instagram. And when the Castro family gets tired of flaunting its wealth at home, it takes the show on the road. Here is a son, Antonio, vacationing in the Mediterranean. Looks quite comfortable. Maybe Saint-Tropez, southern France. Island hopping on a 50-meter luxury yacht. But when Turkish journalists tried to photograph the great communist prince enjoying himself, his bodyguards attacked the journalists. What did he have to hide?

Well, colleagues, do you have any idea what it takes to fuel something like one of these yachts? How many homes, how many hospitals, how many schools that you have all lamented today can be fueled by the 50,000 gallons of fuel it takes to put in a yacht like this? 15,000 gallons just for one diesel tank. Somehow, colleagues, the regime can never find enough fuel for Cuban ambulances. They can never find enough fuel for Cuban buses. But when the Castro family, the elites that are sitting at that table, want to go yachting, suddenly it’s no problem.

Well, here is another one: Tony Castro. So this is the entire family, this kleptocracy. Fidel’s grandson and Antonio’s son. Quite a family tradition. The grandfather confiscates private property from the hardworking people, the father vacations aboard a superyacht, and the son does the exact same. Three generations of revolutionary sacrifice for all of you.

And here’s more of Tony’s lifestyle. Not only was he in Madrid, here he is driving a BMW, a luxury car. Colleagues, of course there’s nothing wrong with traveling the world, enjoying a beach, or driving a luxury car, unless your family has spent nearly seven decades denying those same opportunities to everyone else. So think about the hypocrisy. Millions of Cubans have risked their lives escaping that island, many on rafts across the Florida Straits. And while ordinary Cubans have struggled to leave, the Castro grandchildren have been deciding where to spend their next European vacation, what luxury yacht to sail on, what private home, maybe a visit to the private island. That’s the difficulty of their lives.

Especially if you can enjoy Montblanc bags in the company of famous actresses like Díaz-Canel’s stepson, Manuel Anido Cuesta. Or if you can travel on a diplomatic passport wherever you please, like Fidel’s granddaughter, Vilma Rodríguez Castro. Here she is. She’s enjoying one of her many trips abroad that have taken her to Costa del Sol in Europe and all over Latin America. And here she is in a luxury hotel.

Colleagues, I could keep going all day long. More luxury homes, more designer accessories, more lavish vacations. But I hope you get the picture. The regime tells the world that Cuba has nothing, that everything has simply vanished. Yet the people running Cuba never seem to lack anything, do they? And remember, these aren’t the descendants of hardworking Cuban entrepreneurs who built successful businesses and passed them on. These are the descendants of the men who confiscated other people’s property and businesses, the same people who told generations of Cubans that private wealth was immoral.

Just last week we hosted an event right here in the United Nations. We heard from experts whose investigations uncovered that the doctors and nurses that Cuba sends around the world don’t get paid personally. The money goes to the regime. We also heard from José Daniel Ferrer, who spent years in Cuban prisons for standing up to the regime, for daring to speak out. You saw a taste of what that gets you today. We also heard from Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who spent 5 years behind bars. You know why? He wrote a song. He’s an artist. He literally wrote a song that the regime did not like. So think about that.

Today, colleagues, more than 800 political prisoners still languish in Cuban prisons. These are artists, they’re priests, they’re students, they’re ordinary mothers and fathers, people whose only crime was demanding or even just hinting, even just singing about freedoms that many of us frankly take for granted here. And in Cuba, you can spend 5 years in prison for making art, but the grandchildren of the men who rule that country can flaunt stacks of cash on their social media pages while making AI videos mocking just-released political prisoners.

So, colleagues, those lucky enough to avoid prison, obviously, still live in prison-like conditions on that island with sky-high prices for everything and empty shelves. And those rarely have power to even keep their refrigerators running or power their lights. But we saw who does have power: the elites. Don’t take it from me. Go look up “Cuba Libre: The Oppression That Havana Hides.” Watch the testimony of these political prisoners. Watch this supposed delegation of diplomats try to film them, intimidate them, and harass them. And I just ask you to consider this: if the regime has nothing to hide, why did they do that right here in this very building? And today trying to do the same thing, but it’s not going to work with me.

So I have one question for the Cuban delegation and for the regime: what are you so afraid of? What are you so afraid of? Colleagues, these thugs are asking for your vote. And they’re asking for your vote. The distinguished delegate of Cuba has asked for the floor for a point of order. Please make your statement within the scope of rule 71. Thank you, Mr. President.

On the basis of rule 71 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly and of long-established practice of this august event, I would like you to call to order the lying Permanent Representative of the United States, who is offending this delegation, a delegation of a member state. And we thank you for all of that publicity about Cuban tourist destinations. Please allow US citizens to travel freely to Cuba. I’ve heard your statement. It will be reflected in the record of this meeting. I call upon all distinguished delegates to limit their point of order statements within the scope of rule 71, please.

Now, here’s the lie. Here’s the lie, Mr. President. And here’s the lie that I ask you to all take a hard look at. There is no blockade. A blockade is a ring of military ships around an island. It doesn’t exist. It does not exist. And if it did, let me ask you this: how in just the first eight months of this year, 2026, did American companies export more than $876 million in goods to Cuba? I’m from Florida, my friends. I see the ships leaving the ports. Including, by the way, $230 million in fuel for eligible Cuban private businesses. How did the United States become Cuba’s single largest fuel supplier to its private sector, as small as it is, while Havana tells the world America won’t let fuel in? That’s the lie, Mr. President.

Let me ask you this, colleagues, cause many of you are here in the room. How have Belize, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Uruguay, the European Union, CARICOM, and UN agencies themselves delivered shipments to Cuba in just the past few months if there’s a blockade not letting anything in or out? It’s a lie. That’s the lie if we want to talk about points of order, Mr. President.

Colleagues, there is no blockade, so let me conclude from where I began. Things don’t just disappear. An entire country’s wealth doesn’t just vanish and evaporate. Its confiscated property didn’t just go away. Its doctors’ wages didn’t just cease to exist. But we now know where it is. The billions documented in GAESA’s secret financial accounts that have now been exposed to the world is where it is. That’s where the Cuban people’s wealth is sitting. Their wealth simply changed hands from their hands as they starve to the elites as they live lives of luxury.

So when Havana asks for your vote, I want you to remember what you’ve seen here today. This is on the record for all of history to see. My message to Havana is simple: free the prisoners, stop exploiting your own people, tell the Cuban people and the world where the money has gone. To my fellow ambassadors, do not hand Havana another propaganda victory. Don’t lend your votes to the abuse of the Cuban people.

And even now, the regime has resorted to a complete and utter lie that the United States is threatening countries with reprisals over their vote. They are threatening countries with reprisals over this vote. The bottom line is they’re just scared. And they’re scared of the truth. Every year this corrupt regime uses this vote and this body to then go back and lie to the Cuban people that the world is with them. You are participating in that. You are complicit. Colleagues, history is watching. Do not stand with this regime. Vote no on this resolution and stand with the Cuban people.

I thank you, Mr. President.

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