The U.S. State Department has named Benjamin Ziff, a career diplomat who was in charge of the agency’s migration policies for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the new chief of mission for the American Embassy in Havana. In a statement Monday, the embassy said Ziff assumed the role of chargé d’affaires on July 15. Previously, he headed a working group responsible for coordinating the department’s migration policy and strategy for the Western Hemisphere. He has been a deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs and deputy director of the Office of Central American Af...
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