ZUNIGA TO HEAD NSC’S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY
A State Department veteran of Cuba affairs, Ricardo Zuniga, will move to the White House to replace Dan Restrepo as the National Security Council’s lead man on Latin America policy, the Miami Herald reported May 25, quoting the NSC.
Zuniga was posted to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana in the early 2000s as a human rights specialist and was cited in a State Department staff award in 2003 “for his comprehensive reporting … His work with human rights groups and activists in Cuba was substantial.”
Zuniga later served on the State Department’s Cuba desk and became its acting head — officially Coordinator of Cuban Affairs — from 2009 to 2010, when he was appointed head of the political section at the U.S. Embassy in Brazil.
Zuniga, who is of Honduran descent, is the first career diplomat to head the NSC’s Western Hemisphere section since 2004. Restrepo, President Obama’s point man on Latin America policy since early 2007, will return to the private sector.
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