The View from Havana: Former Top U.S. Diplomat in Cuba Vicki Huddleston
Intelligence Matters
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🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:35.1 | Let me just say first about Tillerson. |
| 0:39.7 | It's hard to fathom what happened because he was a very experienced man in a very high |
| 0:46.1 | position. |
| 0:47.1 | He had been all over the world. |
| 0:48.8 | So why didn't he understand and appreciate better what the State Department was trying |
| 0:55.0 | to do? |
| 0:57.0 | The President's Secretary is doing better, but the State Department, I think, is still |
| 1:04.1 | in a position in which it's been severely weakened by Tillerson. |
| 1:08.7 | And it's still weak because essentially, you have a president that calls the shock. |
| 1:16.5 | You say there's a contradiction that haunts our relationship with Cuba. |
| 1:21.6 | Our policy, which for the most part, with some exceptions, we have had a punitive policy |
| 1:28.6 | against Cuba. |
| 1:30.0 | The results of this punitive policy other than the fact that it obviously failed for 58 |
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