cubaninsider: Why Does the US EVEN HAVE an Embassy in Havana?

22.4.23

Why Does the US EVEN HAVE an Embassy in Havana?

A Fresh Look At The Situation

Yes, the United States still maintains a ubiquitous 7-story Embassy Building in Havana. The question is...why? There is, of course, no U. S. ambassador in Cuba. But Benjamin Ziff is the Charge'/D'affaires at the U. S. Embassy Building in Havana.

Back in 2016 U. S. President Barack Obama became the first U. S. President since 1959's Cuban Revolution to have the courage to try to normalize relations with Cuba. As shown above, President Obama even had the courage to visit and even use statewide Cuban television to tell the Cuban people: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." History registers the fact that President Obama meant those words but, within days, it was apparent that rich and powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana/Miami and in Washington quickly overturned that courageous promise to the Cuban people in Cuba.

As shown above, President Obama was also even courageous enough to name Jeffrey DeLaurentis, one of the USA's greatest and most respected diplomats, as the new U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. But, of course, Cuban-Americans such as Marco Rubio from Little Havana/Miami quickly also ended that brave Obama appointment too.

So, except for the few days that President Obama in 2016 named the brilliant and decent Jeffrey DeLaurentis as the USA's badly needed Ambassador to Cuba, U. S. relations with Cuba have been dictated by counter revolutionaries in Miami and in Washington since 1959. This week -- in late April of 2023 -- NBC News had a major report on the ongoing disastrous 6-decades of the USA's acrimonious relations with Cuba, now led by Charge D'affaires Benjamin Ziff, not by an Ambassador like the great Jeffrey DeLaurentis.

The NBC News report this week -- late April-2023 -- stressed the "dangerous" migration of Cubans to the U. S.: "Over 16,000 Cubans have emigrated to the US through a humanitarian parole program since it began in January, US Charge d'Affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff, told NBC News." As the dangerous treks from Cuba to the U. S. across the Caribbean Sea or across the U.S.-Mexican border continue unabated and with mounting lures, it means more-and-more problems for US-Cuban Relations, as apparently many powerful people desire. Meanwhile {see below} on April 21-2023 NBC News reported that: "The U.S. is making efforts to expand the number of people in organizations who are willing to sponsor immigrants from Cuba and other countries, according to the U.S. Charge d'affaires in Havana, Benjamin Ziff."

The U. S. "parole program." {above}

Remember what the courageous President Barack Obama, on his Historic Visit to Cuba in 2016, sincerely told the Cuban people: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." As the Democratic President of the United States and as the strongest person in the World in 2016, Obam's decent overtures to the Cuban people were quickly dumped into the political trash cans in Miami, Newark, and Washington.

In the USA's two-party political system, Democratic Cuban-American U. S. Senator Bob Menendez from Newark and Republican U. S. Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana/Miami are the two most powerful people in charge of U.S.-Cuban Relations. President Obama in 2016 faced that fact and since 2017 so have the last two U. S. Presidents -- the Democrat Joe Biden and the Republican Donald Trump.