White House: Cuban leaders didn’t want to change - POLITICO

White House: Cuban leaders didn’t want to change - POLITICO: " Cuba didn’t want to change the way things were — the United States persuaded them to, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said here Friday.

Normalization wasn’t even on the minds of Cuban officials as Rhodes in 2013 began the secret talks that led to the release of American prisoner Alan Gross, he said, arguing that the Castro government felt like it benefited from the isolation and opposition to the United States."  'via Blog this'