The United Nations has witnessed the shamelessness and brazenness with which the world's largest military and economic power tries to give lessons on freedom and human rights to the world; but, once again, with hypocrisy and cynicism, it lies.
For that freedom that Cuba has treasured for decades and defends out of conviction, Cubans will have to give everything. Our voices cannot be complicit in the silence and infamy that the deceitful and offensive speech against our homeland by U.S. President Donald Trump intends to establish from the United Nations. Once again, without scruples and with total cynicism, he tries to impose labels and names against our country for no other reason than to tarnish, frustrate, ruin, and reduce to ashes the human and precious work dreamed of by our José Martí and consolidated by Fidel.
In the year of the centenary of his birth, let us turn to his legacy to condemn, as never before, so much barbarity, blackmail, and threats coming from the U.S. government, in its already practiced and recurring foreign policy concerning Cuba.
From the most remote corners of this planet, tarnished these days, from the UN headquarters, let us condemn the overbearing and hostile attitude of that threatening government, which tries to set itself up as the owner and ruler of the world's destinies and to attack sovereign states without scruples, particularly Cuba.
Cubans, wherever we may be, will remember in every minute of this 81st UN General Assembly the voice and impeccable truth of our Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro Ruz, in his early warning about the serious challenges that still persist today in American society regarding freedoms and human rights, which today that nation seeks to use or wield to attack Cuba, without moral authority or any right.
Six decades of blockade and a suffocating energy siege color every minute and the lives of our families on the island with sadness, agony, and sorrow. For them, for the truth, and for the right to a dignified and decent existence that belongs to them/us as a nation, let us condemn that overbearing attitude and that genocidal war they want to impose on us with false and colonial pretexts.
Cuba is not a threat to the security and national stability of the giant to the north, and they know it. Cuba does not undertake military incursions to take over territories and pursue strategic economic and energy interests in its region. Cuba is a nation of peace and does not go around the world imposing unilateral strides and sanctions on third countries; on the contrary, it shares and promotes life and solidarity with effort and altruism, with abundant examples of values like independence, sovereignty, self-determination, and social justice.
Cuba will never coexist with genuflecting and servile attitudes towards Marco Rubio and his follower henchmen. Cuba must be respected.
From this Mediterranean island, we freely condemn the arrogant, meddling, and shameless accusation made by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, against our glorious people and our nation.
Cuba is and will be for the Cubans.
Long live a free and sovereign Cuba.
Homeland or Death, We Will Overcome!
Association of Cubans Residing in Cyprus,
September 23, 2026.
Nicosia, Cyprus.