A Cuban diplomat who got into a fiery clash with US Ambassador Mike Waltz at the United Nations will be expelled from the country.
The confrontation occurred on Tuesday between Waltz and members of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla’s team after the US ambassador called out ‘corrupt Cuban elites.’
The exchange became physical when a Cuban delegate named Rolando Vergara Zito lunged at Waltz’s spokesman, JP Freire, and attempted to snatch an iPhone Freire was recording with.
On Tuesday evening, Waltz revealed on Fox News that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed paperwork to kick Vergara Zito out of the US.
‘He’s gone. He is going to be on a plane to Havana within the next 24 hours,’ Waltz said on the network.
The US ambassador accused Vergara Zito of shoving and trying to assault ‘one of our American diplomats.’
‘You lay a hand on an American here in the United States, President Trump, Secretary Rubio and myself, we’re not gonna stand for it,’ Waltz said.
The confrontation at the UN began after Waltz held up a photo of late dictator Fidel Castro wearing two Rolexes estimated to be worth roughly $40,000, then showed a photo of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to the crowd.
US Ambassador Mike Waltz Waltz revealed on Tuesday that a Cuban diplomat accused of assaulting an American diplomat is being expelled from the US
Waltz said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed paperwork to kick Cuban delegate Rolando Vergara Zito out of the country
The revelation comes after a confrontation at the United Nations on Tuesday between Waltz and members of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla’s team
Rodriguez Parrilla aggressively approached the podium to brand Waltz a liar after the US ambassador called out ‘corrupt Cuban elites’
‘According to the regime’s own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage,’ the US ambassador said. ‘It didn’t just start with Castro. This is the current Cuban President, also with a Rolex on.’
That is when Rodriguez Parrilla aggressively approached the podium to brand Waltz a liar.
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