This Day in History

May 5, 2006:  Rafael Dausa Cespedes, one of Havana’s highest-ranking Intelligence Officers, assumed his duties as Ambassador to Bolivia.  Twelve years earlier, Dausa Cespedes was posted as Third Secretary at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, DC.  A meteoric rise followed and within five years he was appointed to New York City as Ambassador at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations (CMUN).  By early 2004, Dausa Cespedes served as Director of the North American Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was promoted to Deputy Foreign Minister in 2005.