Roberta S. Jacobson: “There is nothing in the policy that we undertook that was not something done in our national interest.”

Venezuelans need to talk to Venezuelans.

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.

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

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.