Roberta S. Jacobson: “The principal human rights abuses were abridgement of the rights of citizens to change the government...”

The President's new approach makes clear that the United States can no longer be blamed as an obstacle to progress on such things as access to information or connecting Cubans to the world.

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

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