Roberta Jacobson
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Roberta Jacobson is a seasoned diplomat who has navigated complex international relations, particularly between the U.S. and Latin America. This interview highlights her ability to mediate and build coalitions, demonstrating her commitment to collaborative solutions in foreign policy.
“Mexico's numbers have been decreasing for a long time now, a number of years. Part of that's demographic. They're a graying population. Something that actually, by the way, will happen in Central America in about five years. So this will ebb naturally, but I understand that's not necessarily what you want to wait for.”
“The officer at the NSC who was although there were jokes about it, there was an edge to those jokes in the sense that everybody that I worked with was cognizant, that that had put the NSC way over its mandate into regardless of whether or not you thought in Olli North's words or the president's word that it was a neat idea, which I did no…”
“But you work as strenuously as you can with local governments in Central America and messaging about what you will get when you come here and what you won't and you do return some people. Because the traffickers, the coyotes, they put out word that if you go, you can stay.”
“It's worrisome to me, and I'm actually going to be working with the American Academy of Diplomacy and Tom Pickering on some work that they're doing. About what you do to rebuild.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 272 — Roberta Jacobson
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