US ambassador shouts down Cuban officials trying to hijack UN speech: ‘Back away! This isn’t Havana!’

A delegation of Cuban officials interrupted a speech by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, which led to a heated shouting match.

Waltz was defending the U.S. embargo against the communist regime on the island nation when the Cuban delegation began pounding on their desks.

‘Back up, ambassador! Back away! This isn’t Havana! You’re not going to intimidate me. Do you understand who you’re dealing with?’

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called for a point of order from the U.N. presiding official before he furiously walked toward the podium where Waltz was speaking.

“You are a liar!” he yelled.

“Imagine what happens when someone asks these questions in Havana, not in a room full of ambassadors and cameras. Imagine what happens to those people if this is the intimidation and