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"This isn't Havana": Waltz confronts Cuban delegates at UN

USA TODAY's clip captures desk-banging protests and Cuba's foreign minister asking that the US ambassador be called to order.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 337,435 views a day, 36 times a normal first day on this channel (9,466).

Shouting erupts between US and Cuban officials at UN Cuba embargo vote

Cuban delegates point toward the podium as Michael Waltz tells them to back away. The presiding official suspends the meeting, but the US ambassador keeps speaking.

"You're not going to intimidate me," Waltz says in USA TODAY's footage of the confrontation during a United Nations vote on the US embargo against Cuba.

Delegates bang on desks and raise papers. Waltz insists on his right to speak, describing the UN as distinct from Cuba's political system. The clip then gives the floor to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who asks that the American representative be called to order and accuses him of lying and disrespecting the assembly.

Behind the exchange is a decades-old dispute over US trade restrictions. The UN has passed resolutions condemning the embargo since 1992.

The Short reached roughly 155,000 views in seven hours, already far beyond USA TODAY's usual full-day audience for that format. A separate, longer upload of the same confrontation also drew an unusually large audience. The short version concentrates on the interruption and the two sides' responses, rather than explaining the vote's outcome.

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The facts

Channel: USA TODAY
Subscribers: 7,590,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 10,689,767
Channel views, pace per day: 863,443 (on a normal day: 1,543,380)
Video published: October 27, 2026
Video views so far: 154,664 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 337,435

The numbers

Both versions of the UN confrontation drew unusually large audiences for their respective formats. The Short's view count is still from its opening hours, not a completed first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,466

this video

337,435

subscribers

7,590,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

5,306,408,127

views per day

863,443