Roberta S. Jacobson: “You have seen a 21 percent increase in tax revenue because of fiscal reform and closing of the budget gap.”

We have strongly resisted attempts to be used as a distraction from Venezuela's real problems.

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.

We believe he should be released.

Our previous approach to relations with Cuba over a half century, though rooted in the best of intentions, failed to empower the Cuban people.