UNGA80 / CUBA

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla told the General Assembly’s high-level debate that the United States, under the “pretext of combating crime and drug trafficking” is creating “a dangerous situation” in the Caribbean “that violates International Law and threatens regional peace and security.” UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:03:17
• Production Date: 27 September 2025
• Asset Language: Spanish
• Personal Subject: BRUNO EDUARDO RODRÍGUEZ PARRILLA
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS; GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: COLONIALISM; MILITARY ACTIVITY; SOVEREIGNTY; EMBARGO; BLOCKADE
• Geographic Subject: CUBA; VENEZUELA; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 3456147
• Parent Id: 3456147
• Alternate Title: unifeed250927d

Description

STORY: UNGA80 / CUBA
TRT: 03:17
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

27 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY

2. Various shots, General Assembly rostrum
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“The threat of war looms large today over the Caribbean Sea, with an extraordinary and absolutely unjustified naval and air buildup, with landing and assault ships and nuclear submarines.”
4. Wide shot, Rodríguez Parrilla at the GA rostrum
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“The United States uses the pretext of combating crime and drug trafficking, a story that no one believes. The attack and destruction of unregistered or unchartered course speedboats; the extrajudicial murder or execution of civilians; the interdiction of fishing vessels or boats and the aggressive actions of the United States create a dangerous situation that violates International Law and threatens regional peace and security.”
6. Wide shot, Rodríguez Parrilla at the GA rostrum
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“We reject the Monroe Doctrine as well as any attempt of militarization, intervention or imperialist domination in Latin America and the Caribbean, declared as a Zone of Peace in January 2014 in Havana, the proclamation of which was signed by the Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.”
8. Wide shot, Rodríguez Parrilla at the GA rostrum
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“Our country is suffering the devastating and cumulative impact of the policy of hostility and economic suffocation imposed by the United States for more than six decades. The blockade against Cuba persists and has been tightened to the extremes. It is an overwhelming and prolonged economic war aimed at depriving Cubans of their livelihoods and sustainability, of their existence as a fraternal and joyful people.”
10. Med shot, Cuba’s delegation
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“It is cynical that the United States government labels Cuba as a State sponsor of terrorism following political and economic coercion purposes. This is a slander that neither this Organization nor any of its Member States share. Many national institutions, both banking and financial and commercial, in almost all the countries represented here, are subject to intimidation by this fallacious designation by the United States government.”
12. Wide shot, Cuba’s delegation applauding

Storyline

Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla today (27 Sep) told the General Assembly’s high-level debate that the United States, under the “pretext of combating crime and drug trafficking” is creating “a dangerous situation” in the Caribbean “that violates International Law and threatens regional peace and security.”

Rodríguez Parrilla said, “the threat of war looms large today over the Caribbean Sea, with an extraordinary and absolutely unjustified naval and air buildup, with landing and assault ships and nuclear submarines.”

He accused the United States of “the attack and destruction of unregistered or unchartered course speedboats” and the “extrajudicial murder or execution of civilians.”

Rodríguez Parrilla said, “we reject the Monroe Doctrine as well as any attempt of militarization, intervention or imperialist domination in Latin America and the Caribbean, declared as a Zone of Peace in January 2014 in Havana, the proclamation of which was signed by the Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.”

Turning to the situation in his own country, he said Cuba “is suffering the devastating and cumulative impact of the policy of hostility and economic suffocation imposed by the United States for more than six decades,” which “persists and has been tightened to the extremes.”

Rodríguez Parrilla said it was “cynical that the United States government labels Cuba as a State sponsor of terrorism following political and economic coercion purposes.”

He said this was “a slander” and stressed that “many national institutions, both banking and financial and commercial, in almost all the countries represented here, are subject to intimidation by this fallacious designation by the United States government.”