WASHINGTON _ The Trump administration is expected to name Mauricio Claver-Carone, one of the most outspoken opponents of the Obama administration's rapprochement with Cuba, as the new senior director of the National Security Council's Western Hemisphere Affairs, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the decision.
Claver-Carone will take over the influential White House department for Juan Cruz, who led the department since the early months of the Trump administration and was a key architect of Trump's policies to pressure the Venezuelan government.
The Miami native, raised in Spain and Orlando, will take over the coordination of Latin American policies among the White House, State Department, Treasury and other agencies.
