Roberta S. Jacobson: “Nonviolent dissent is not criminal behavior. Opposition to the government is not criminal behavior.”

We have consistently called on the Venezuelan Government to release those it has unjustly jailed.

No government--neither that of the Castros nor those of third countries--can credibly make the case that pushing the Cuban Government to respect universal human rights is taking sides in a dispute between Cuba and the United States.

The principal human rights abuses were abridgement of the rights of citizens to change the government...

The greatest progress so far is just the acceptance by both sides that we do want diplomatic relations.