Roberta S. Jacobson: “The principal human rights abuses were abridgement of the rights of citizens to change the government...”

We could not accept not meeting with democracy activists and with the broadest swath of Cubans possible.

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.

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

the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, including reopening our Embassy in Havana, will allow us to more effectively represent U.S. interests, including property claims, fugitives, human rights, and needed political reforms and…