'US is acting as international delinquent': Why Cuba and America clashed at UN

US and Cuba clash at UN over human rights and 60 year-old trade embargo The United States and Cuba clashed at the United Nations on Monday after a US-hosted event brought together Cuban dissidents to discuss alleged human rights abuses by the nation’s government.The event, held at the UN building, ended with a heated exchange as Cuban ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán and other Cuban representatives shouted at US ambassador Mike Waltz while he was leaving.The incident comes ahead of a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for an end to the US trade embargo on Cuba. The vote is expected on October 27-28. The non-binding resolution has been passed by wide margins every year since 1992, but only the US Congress can lift the embargo.Speaking to reporters in New York, Waltz accused Cuban diplomats of harassing and intimidating former political prisoners who had recently been released, as well as other people attending the event."I hope you...noted the so-called diplomats from the Cuban embassy here that we allow here by dint of treaty, harassing, yelling, intimidating, and filming not only our just released former political prisoners but others," Waltz said.He also accused th...