Diplomatic Circles

New Cuban ambassador helped negotiate U.S.-Cuba détente

Josefina Vidal Ferreiro arrives as Canada and Cuba continue to investigate strange health symptoms among some Canadian diplomats and family members posted to Cuba. Canada said this week it won't allow family members of diplomats to stay with their loved ones on the island anymore.

Cuban Ambassador Josefina Vidal Ferreiro started on the job on March 27, bringing 25 years of experience covering North American relations in her foreign ministry. The Hill Times file photograph Andrew Meade

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

April 18, 2018

Cuba has sent a top diplomat with 25 years of experience in North American relations, and who helped negotiate the 2014 U.S.-Cuba détente, to lead its embassy in Canada, just as a new president is about to take over the island state from outside the Castro family for the first time in more than fou...

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