Roberta S. Jacobson: “Cubans are also entitled to access uncensored information, including through the Internet.”

We are also deepening our engagement with Europe to encourage partners there to push for advances in human rights and democratic principles with their Cuban counterparts.

The exit of either of the Castro brothers is very, very significant.

Our goal is to do everything that we can to ensure that Cubans have the right to determine their own future, to make their own decisions.

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.