The last US ambassador to serve in Havana left the post in 1960 at the beginning of Fidel Castro’s rule.
In a move aimed at consolidating improved relations with Cuba, US President Barack Obama has nominated career diplomat Jeffrey DeLaurentis as the nation’s first ambassador to Cuba in 55 years.
Rubio blocked the appointment of Roberta Jacobson as US ambassador to Mexico after she played a key role in organizing Obama’s breakthrough visit to Cuba in March, when he became the first sitting US president to visit Cuba in a half-century.
World leaders speaking at the United Nations General Assembly last week called for the end of the blockade.
The United States relaunched commercial flights to the communist island in August and a JetBlue flight was the first of its kind to touch down in Cuba in more than five decades.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/28/inenglish/1475052561_867855.html
