Our Woman in HavanaOur Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba

Vicki Huddleston, Overlook Press, 2018, $29.95/hardcover, 304 pages.

This book offers many inside stories from the past few decades of U.S.- Cuba relations, from 1989 under the George H.W. Bush administration to today. After the 1961 closing of the U.S. embassy in Havana, it wasn’t until 1977 that the United States was able to take another stab at diplomacy by opening a U.S. interests section in Cuba’s capital city.

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