Cuban diplomats disrupt UN meeting called by US on prisoners

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — About 20 Cuban diplomats and supporters have disrupted a U.N. meeting called by the United States to spotlight the country’s political prisoners, banging on tables and shouting in Spanish “Cuba Yes, U.S. Blockade No!”
It was impossible to hear U.S. Deputy Ambassador Kelley Currie and senior Trump administration officials above the noise in the U.N. Economic and Social Council chamber on Tuesday which continued for more than 45 minutes.
Currie told re