Roberta S. Jacobson: “The elections next year in Venezuela have the potential to be an incredibly important event for the people of Venezuela…”

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.

As we move the process ahead, we hope we can also work together to find common ground toward our shared goal of enabling the Cuban people to freely determine their own future.

Most human rights abuses were official acts committed at the direction of the government.

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.