Roberta S. Jacobson: “We have strongly resisted attempts to be used as a distraction from Venezuela's real problems.”

I think the President has made very clear that Congress is the only body that can lift the embargo.

But comprehensive changes in our economic relationship will require congressional action to lift the embargo, and the President has urged Congress to begin that effort.

The policy is based on a clear-eyed strategy that empowers the Cuban people to determine their own future by creating new economic opportunities and increasing their contact with the outside world.

I want to get specific here for a moment as to how you intend to evaluate Cuba's progress on human rights...