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Biden Administration appoints new charge d’affaires to head embassy in Havana

Benjamin Ziff replaces Timothy Zuñiga-Brown, appointed by the Donald Trump administration in 2018. Ziff is a veteran of U.S. diplomacy, having held several positions at the State Department and in embassies in different countries.

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The new U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff. Photo: Archive.

The new U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff. Photo: Archive.

Washington has changed its man in charge of the embassy in Havana. A little more than a week ago, Benjamin Ziff arrived in the Cuban capital as chargé d’affaires, since the Senate has not approved any U.S. ambassador to the island, despite the fact that bilateral diplomatic relations were upgraded seven years ago.

Ziff assumes the post replacing Timothy Zuñiga-Brown, appointed in 2018 by the Trump Administration, the State Department reported Monday.

The new charge d’affaires is a veteran of U.S. diplomacy. He was Director of the Department of State’s Western Hemisphere Bureau Migration Working Group in April 2021, responsible for coordinating the Department’s hemispheric migration policy and strategy.

He has also served as a senior fellow at the State Department for the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States, where he worked on U.S.-European relations and restoring transatlantic ties.

Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European Affairs, responsible for relations with the Nordic and Baltic countries and the Department’s European public diplomacy efforts.

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In Latin America, Ziff has served as second-in-command at the embassy in Bogota, Colombia, and earlier in his career, he worked in public diplomacy posts in Australia, Israel, Panama and Peru.

After a year at the National War College in Washington DC, he served as deputy director of the State Department’s Bureau of Central American Affairs before holding a series of senior positions at the U.S. embassies in Venezuela, Italy and Iraq.

Ziff was born in California and received a bachelor’s degree in political science from California State University in Long Beach. He also earned a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a master’s degree in National Security Studies from the National War College.

A polyglot, he is a winner of the State Department’s Murrow Award for Public Diplomacy and the Presidential Rank Award.

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Comments 3

  1. Gregorio says:
    3 years ago

    First order of business, stop the strangle and rid of the embargo, good things will follow.

    Reply
  2. Gregorio ES says:
    3 years ago

    First order of business should be to stop the strangle and rid of the blockade.

    Reply
  3. Gregorio says:
    3 years ago

    Zero comments so far, really ? hmm

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