If anyone thinks Loretta Lynch, the nominee to replace Eric Holder as U.S. attorney general, is facing a bruising confirmation fight, spare a thought for the next ambassador to Cuba.
Barack Obama’s administration says it wants to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Havana by early April — an ambitious launch date that has triggered a flurry of speculation in diplomatic circles about whom the White House will nominate for a position that hasn’t been filled since now-deceased Ambassador Philip Bonsal was recalled in 1960 at the height of the Cold War.
Unlike with Lynch, who squeaked by the Senate Judiciary Committee with …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
