Roberta S. Jacobson: “While progress has been made in our efforts to reestablish diplomatic relations, we are not there yet.”

the central goal that we have is to help Venezuelans move their country toward democracy, toward respect for human rights.

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.

We know there is a diversity of views in the Congress on this issue, and we hope we can work together to find common ground toward our shared goal of enabling the Cuban people to determine their own future.

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