Cuba
Omar Cardentey: From Cuba to American Diplomacy
Granted refugee status from Cuba at three; later a public diplomacy officer from Kyiv to Baghdad to The Hague.
- Fled
- Cuba
- Status
- Refugee
- Arrived in the U.S.
- as a young child
- Service
- Foreign Service Officer (public diplomacy) since 2009; Deputy Public Affairs Officer, The Hague
- Region
- Cuba
Omar Cardentey was born in Cuba. He and his family received refugee status from the United States when he was three years old.
He joined the Foreign Service in 2009 as a public diplomacy officer and served in Ukraine, Iraq, the Philippines, and Djibouti, on the Counter-ISIL and Haiti earthquake task forces in Washington, and as Deputy Public Affairs Officer in The Hague.
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