Roberta S. Jacobson: “This is not a U.S.-Venezuela issue, it is an internal Venezuelan issue.”

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.

Most human rights abuses were official acts committed at the direction of the government.

Venezuelans need to talk to Venezuelans.