Cuban First Secretary Richard Tur de la Concepcion’s confrontation last month with Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has already resulted in him being booted from America.
Now “Seen, Heard & Whispered” has learned it could also cost him a $200,000-a-year salary.
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Mr. Concepcion had been campaigning to take a U.N. role in helping control how the international body spends its money.
He can forget that now after trying to take on Mr. Waltz.
The U.S. ambassador was delivering a speech denouncing Cuba’s leaders as corrupt when members of the Cuban delegation advanced toward the rostrum.
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Mr. Waltz said an American official was using a phone to record the Cuban delegation’s behavior when Mr. Concepcion sought to slap the phone away and bully the U.N. into cutting off his speech.
That led to Mr. Concepcion’s expulsion from the U.S., which hosts the U.N.
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