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US envoy and Cuba's foreign minister clash at the UN

The clash came during the General Assembly's annual non-binding vote on ending the US embargo on Cuba; Cuba's foreign minister called Waltz a liar.

Photo: Mike Waltz
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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAt the United Nations today, America's ambassador, Mike Waltz, told Cuba's delegation 'This is America' over and over, during the annual debate on ending the US embargo on Cuba.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOver and over? Was there a reason he kept saying it?

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe resolution is non-binding.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, left his seat, charged the rostrum and called Waltz a liar, according to the Associated Press.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCharged the rostrum. At a vote that changes nothing.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWaltz held up a photograph of Che Guevara with a Rolex circled, estimated at about forty thousand dollars. That was the exhibit.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHe brought a visual aid to the United Nations. I respect a man who prepares a slide, but did anyone ask the watch?

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChip, you have the makings of a fine delegate. Do keep that between us.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe New York Post has video that appears to show a Cuban delegate reaching for the iPhone of Waltz's spokesman, J. P. Freire, as he filmed.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn July, Waltz told Cuban diplomats 'This is not Havana.'

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwo speeches, two things this isn't. Is he working toward a full list?

  12. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWaltz says Cuba's foreign minister is not going to intimidate him in the United States of America. The embargo, I assume, remains.

  13. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the one thing everyone agrees on is that the watch is nice.

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