The Cuban broadcaster Laritza Camacho posted a reflection on Facebook that, without 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 adults would say that 'that kid' was diplomatic.” From that evocative image, he built a scathing critique of the behavior of those who represent Cuba to the world.
"The mind is curious in bringing those memories when white turns black and black becomes a smudge on the paper that crosses out beautiful words and transforms them into cheap gossip from an expensive and ineffective local market," wrote the presenter.
The end of her post blends her anger with disappointment as a Cuban: "The worst part is that the word under the smudge is not diplomacy; it is Cuba. I refuse to accept that the vulgar represents me as part of this people."
The incident that prompted his remarks occurred when officials from the Cuban representation to the UN shouted "terrorists" and "get out of the UN" at the panelists of the forum "Cuba Libre: The oppression that Havana hides," organized by the Permanent Mission of the United States, which was streamed live on UN Web TV for almost two hours.
Among the participants were the opposition member 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 just experienced an act of repudiation at the UN from the Cuban communists."
The Colombian correspondent Juan Esteban Silva, from Caracol Radio, released a 29-second video on Tuesday that shows the confrontation from a frontal angle, including a man in a suit raising his middle finger. Silva described the incident 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 didn't stop there. Cuba's permanent representative to the UN, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, posted a satirical video on X that portrays Ferrer and U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz as if they were in a romantic relationship, with the text: "Love blooms between Mike Waltz and José Daniel Ferrer." The post sparked 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 statement: “If it bothers you that we give Cubans a voice to discuss all 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 the end of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, scheduled for October 28. International support for that resolution has gradually declined: 187 votes in 2024, 165 in October 2025, and only 136 in a special session this July.
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