Cuba’s foreign minister accused the United States of committing an "act of war" by restricting fuel shipments to the island Tuesday, prompting U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz to deliver a forceful response blaming Cuba’s communist government for years of blackouts, repression and economic collapse.The confrontation unfolded at the U.N.
General Assembly one day after Cuba’s national electrical grid collapsed, leaving nearly 10 million people without power.It was the third nationwide grid failure this year and the eighth since October 2025, Reuters reported.Cuban officials had restored electricity to parts of central Cuba and roughly one-third of Havana by Tuesday morning, although large areas remained offline or faced unstable service, according to Reuters.CUBA PLUNGES INTO THIRD MAJOR BLACKOUT THIS YEAR AS POWER CRISIS WORSENSU.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz holds up a photograph of a jailed Cuban dissidents during a General Assembly debate on the U.S.embargo against Cuba at U.N.
headquarters in New York on July 7, 2026.(UNTV)Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez told delegates that the Trump administration was carrying out a "multidimensional, non-conventional war" against Cuba that had grown "more cruel and ruthless in the last seven months."Rodríguez described U.S.
efforts to restrict fuel deliveries as the imposition of "an energy collapse, equivalent to a naval blockade, which is an act of war," according to a UNTV transcript.Waltz rejected the claim that the United States had established a naval blockade around Cuba."There is no ring of Navy warships, U.S.Navy warships sitting around this island blocking trade or humanitarian aid going into Cuba," Waltz said.
"It’s fake.It’s false.
It’s a lie.Period."Waltz argued that the real embargo was the one Cuba’s government imposed on its own citizens.HAVANA REGIME IN SUSPENSE AFTER CASTRO INDICTMENT WITH TRUMP PRESSURE ON, SAYS CUBAN-BORN GOP REP.People walk on th...