President Trump has chosen a new U.S. envoy to Cuba. His name is Phillip Goldberg, a career diplomat who has served in various countries. Trump’s choice will no doubt irk the apartheid Castro regime since first of all, anything they don’t fully control irks them and secondly, Goldberg has already crossed the Cuban dictatorship’s socialist allies in Latin America.

Via Reuters:

Exclusive: Trump names career diplomat to head Cuban embassy

The Trump administration has named career diplomat Philip Goldberg to head the all-but-abandoned U.S. embassy in Havana, according to three sources familiar with the matter, at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba.

Goldberg has lengthy experience in a number of countries, and was described by a U.S. congressional aide on Monday as “career and the best of the best”.

But his appointment may ruffle feathers in Havana. He was expelled from Cuba’s socialist ally Bolivia in 2008 for what President Evo Morales claimed was fomenting social unrest.

The appointment has not been publicly announced.

If approved by Cuba, Goldberg will arrive at a low moment in bilateral relations.