Roberta S. Jacobson: “We believe he should be released.”

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.

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

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.