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This is a policy which is condemned to be defeated again... They want Cuba to surrender. They want Cuba to abandon what Cuba is, to abandon its principles, and to submit Cuba again to the desires of the U.S. But that won’t happen.... These people are saying we control Venezuela? No... It’s very frustrating that once again they have chosen hostility instead of co-operation

— Josefina Vidal on Cuba

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This is a policy which is condemned to be defeated again... They want Cuba to surrender. They want Cuba to abandon what Cuba is, to abandon its principles, and to submit Cuba again to the desires of the U.S. But that won’t happen.... These people are saying we control Venezuela? No... It’s very frustrating that once again they have chosen hostility instead of co-operation" in the context of "Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, quoted in Trump’s push to make Cuba ‘surrender’ will fail, negotiator says, By Stephen Wicary, Bloomberg, (19 April 2019)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Josefina Vidal

About Josefina Vidal

Josefina Vidal Ferreiro (born 18 February 1961) is a Cuban diplomat, and has been the Cuban Ambassador to Canada since March 28, 2018. Before that, she was director general of the North American Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.