The Cuban host Laritza Camacho published a reflection on Facebook that, while not explicitly naming anyone, directly addresses the behavior of regime officials following the act of repudiation led by Cuban diplomats at the UN headquarters in New York last Monday.
Camacho opened his text with a childhood memory: "I remember as a girl that when a boy resolved a conflict without shouting, without offending anyone, with smiles and arguments, the elders would say that 'that boy' was diplomatic." From that evocative image, he built a scathing critique of the behavior of those who represent Cuba to the world.
"It's curious how the mind recalls those memories when white turns black, and black becomes a smudge on the paper that crosses out beautiful words, turning them into cheap gossip from an overpriced and dysfunctional neighborhood market," wrote the presenter.
The end of her post mixes her anger with her disappointment as a Cuban: "The worst part is that the word under the smudge is not diplomacy, it's Cuba. I refuse to accept that vulgarity represents me as part of this people."
The incident that prompted his words occurred when officials from the Cuban representation at the UN called the panelists of the forum "Cuba Libre: The Oppression That Havana Hides" "terrorists" and declared them "out of the UN." This forum was organized by the Permanent Mission of the United States and was broadcast live on UN Web TV for nearly two hours.
Among the participants were the opposition figure and former political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer, founder of UNPACU, and the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who was released and exiled to Miami in July after five years in prison.
Ferrer reported the incident on Facebook with these words: "We were just subjected to an act of repudiation at the UN by the Cuban communists."
The Colombian correspondent Juan Esteban Silva, from Caracol Radio, released a 29-second video the following day that shows the confrontation from a frontal angle, including a man in a suit raising his middle finger. Silva described the episode as "unacceptable!" and added, "I had the opportunity to be there and witness what happened. Intimidation will not silence the truth."
The behavior of the Cuban delegation did not stop there. Cuba's permanent representative to the UN, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, posted a satirical video on X that portrayed Ferrer and U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz as if they were in a romantic relationship, with the caption "Love blooms between Mike Waltz and José Daniel Ferrer." The post generated a new wave of criticism on social media.
Waltz had previously responded to Soberón's attempts to prevent the forum from taking place with a straightforward phrase: “If it bothers you that we give a voice to Cubans to discuss all of this, how about you stop doing those things?” Then we will stop talking about them.
The incident at the UN occurs just days before the General Assembly's vote on the Cuban resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo, scheduled for October 28. International support for this resolution has gradually declined: 187 votes in 2024, 165 in October 2025, and just 136 in the extraordinary session of July this year.
Related videos:
Filed under: