Under a law from the 1990s only Congress can end the 1960 embargo on Cuba.  But support for the embargo, which failed abysmally and gave the Castros potent propoganda, has been crumbling.  Every country in Latin America agrres that Cuba should have a normal place in teh Ameircas.

The Obama adminsitration has not asked the State Department to remove Cuba frmits terrorism list.

Rapi; Castro’s economic reforms have stalled recently and they never were intended to lead to political reform.

The lesson of Cuba is that pressure from Washington does not lead to democratization.