U.S. Expels 1 Cuban Diplomat After U.N. Phone Clash
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 29
U.S. Expels 1 Cuban Diplomat After U.N. Phone Clash
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 29
Summary
Richard Tur de la Concepción, a first secretary at Cuba’s U.N. mission, was ordered out of the United States after the State Department said he was “not welcome.”
The expulsion followed a Tuesday confrontation in the U.N. General Assembly hall, where U.S. officials said the Cuban diplomat swatted at a phone as an American filmed him at close range.
Michael Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., called the act an assault and said the diplomat would be on a flight back to Havana the same day.
The clash erupted after Waltz spoke against a resolution urging an end to the decades-old U.S. embargo, underscoring a broader Trump administration push to intensify pressure on Cuba’s government.