Roberta S. Jacobson: “We could not accept not meeting with democracy activists and with the broadest swath of Cubans possible.”

They should all be able to travel freely.

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

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.

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.