Cuban official accused of shoving US diplomat during Mike Waltz's shouting match at UN to be kicked out of US

A Cuban official who allegedly shoved and tried to assault an American diplomat recording Mike Waltz's shouting match with Havana's foreign minister on the floor of the U.N. is to be kicked out of the U.S., the ambassador has confirmed. The delegate, identified by Cuban media as Richard Tur de la Concepcion, seemed to grab U.S. diplomat J.P. Freire's cell phone while he filmed Waltz's spat with Cuban foreign affairs minister Bruno Rodriguez Perea that erupted on the floor of the U.N.'s General Assembly Hall on Tuesday. 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. You cannot silence me or you cannot silence my colleagues. Tour della Concepcion, the first secretary of Cuba's permanent mission to the U.N., wagged his finger and pushed Freire's device away before accusing him of, quote, violating his personal space. He's violating my personal space. What's going on with that? He's not allowed to... Let's move to the side, please. Let's move to the side. Waltz told Fox News' Hannity that the Cuban official in question, quote, shoved and tried to assault a member of the American delegation. They thought they could intimidate me and my diplomats. You know I'm a 27-year Green Beret. I'm not going to have it. Just before I came on tonight, Secretary Rubio signed the paperwork to eject the diplomat that thought he could, the Cuban diplomat, the first secretary of their delegation, who shoved and tried to assault one of our American diplomats. He's gone. He is going to be on a plane to Havana within the next 24 hours. Waltz accused the Cuban delegation of trying to use the U.N. as a, quote, propaganda platform to paint themselves as the victim, just a day before the U.N. votes on a resolution condemning the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba. Waltz said of his tirade, where he accused the Havana government of profiting off the forced labor of its own citizens, triggered a meltdown among the Cuban delegation, but said it was a way of countering communist propaganda with hard truths. They didn't like hearing those hard truths. They're used to hearing the propaganda in communist in communist Havana but under this administration we're gonna show the world the the depredation and the failings of communism waltz blasted how the Castro family lived a life of luxury while the rest of the Cuban population were plagued by hardships during his tirade waltz emphasized his point by holding up a photo of the late dictator Fidel Castro wearing two Rolex watches worth around $40,000 in today's currency. The former Florida congressman then showed a picture of the country's current president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, sporting a similar timepiece. Meanwhile, Rodriguez-Perea has accused Washington of lying in a, quote, crude and permanent manner, and accused Waltz of, quote, arrogance and hubris. The U.S. government, with its crude lies of the General Assembly of the United Nations, launched a new desperate attempt to justify the economic aggression against Cuba and its criminal energy siege. Rodriguez-Perea wrote on X. Eight statements today are part of the media circus of threats and of the electoral campaign to which the U.S. government dedicates substantial economic and human resources. The U.N. will vote on a resolution condemning the economic embargo on the Caribbean island Wednesday in what has become a yearly tradition for the past 34 years. The first vote took place in 1992, with 59 countries voting in favor. Last year, 165 countries supported the motion. Thank you.