{"id":255763,"date":"2022-07-26T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=255763"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:03:27","slug":"biden-administration-appoints-new-charge-daffaires-to-head-embassy-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/biden-administration-appoints-new-charge-daffaires-to-head-embassy-in-havana\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration appoints new charge d’affaires to head embassy in Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington has changed its man in charge of the embassy in Havana<\/a>. A little more than a week ago, Benjamin Ziff arrived in the Cuban capital as charg\u00e9 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.<\/p>\n

Ziff assumes the post replacing Timothy Zu\u00f1iga-Brown, appointed in 2018 by the Trump Administration, the State Department reported Monday.<\/p>\n

The new charge d’affaires<\/a> is a veteran of U.S. diplomacy. He was Director of the Department of State\u2019s Western Hemisphere Bureau Migration Working Group in April 2021, responsible for coordinating the Department\u2019s hemispheric migration policy and strategy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n