Our Woman In Havana by Vicki Huddleston (Peru)
Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Deborah Harding (PC Staff, Virgin Islands, Cameron, Washington/HQ) Our Woman In Havana by Vicki Huddleston (Peru 1964-65) Harry N. Adams Publisher March 2018 304 pages $14.39 (Kindle); $26.76 (Hardcover) Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations between the two countries broke off. A thaw came in 1977, with the opening of a de facto embassy in Havana, the US Interests Section, where Huddleston would later serve. In her compelling memoir of a diplomat at work, she tells gripping stories of face-to-face encounters with Fidel Castro and the initiatives she undertook, like the transistor radios she furnished to ordinary Cubans. With inside . . .
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Leita Kaldi Davis
I read this incredible book with my Through Women's Eyes Book Club of Sarasota/Manatee, never to be forgotten. An incredible…