Honduras sends first ambassador to Cuba in decades
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| Published on Friday, March 2, 2007 |
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters): Honduras assigned an ambassador to Cuba on Wednesday, restoring full diplomatic relations with the socialist island for the first time in nearly half a century.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a logging magnate seen as a moderate liberal, named agriculture expert Juan Ramon ambassador to Cuba in a ceremony with Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez.
Pressured by the United States, Honduras broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961; two years after Fidel Castro took power in a guerrilla revolution.
In 2002, the countries restored diplomatic relations, but since then Honduras has had only a business representative on the island. Cuba sent an ambassador to Honduras in 2002. |
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