Obama Designated The First American Ambassador To Cuba In The Last 50 Years

U.S. Rudolph Rodriquez
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US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday the appointment of Jeffrey DeLaurentis on the post of ambassador in Cuba, an initiative highly symbolic a few months before his departure from the White House, but that is to be hit by the refusal of the Senate under the control of the Republicans, said AFP, quoted by Agerpres.

Jeffrey DeLaurentis is already at the head of the new US embassy in Havana, but has the title of charge d’affaires, and not of ambassador.

After half a century of Cold War tensions inherited from the two former enemy countries announced at the end of 2014 an approach which was translated by restoring the diplomatic relations and the reopening of the two chancellors in Washington and Havana back in July 2015.

‘I am proud to call on Jeffrey DeLaurentis to become the first US ambassador to Cuba after more than 50 years,’ said Barack Obama who, on 17 December 2014, announced to everyone’s surprise closer relations towards Havana.

Any presidential nomination of an ambassador must be confirmed by the Senate. Several members of the Congress, including the former Republican primaries candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, have openly declared against an open attitude towards the communist regime.

Relations between the United States and Cuba have a complex history. The two states are known to have had long tensioned relationship. When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the relations between the two countries have escalated rapidly into fierce controversy, polemics on political matters and even international crises. Although Cuba is only 160 kilometers from the coast of Florida, the two nations have not had diplomatic relations since 1961 and used the Righteous Switzerland as a mediator whenever they needed to discuss.