Cuba has to be normal, and it’s not. It is a brutal dictatorship

Q&A on Obama’s Policy Changes

Toward Cuba

by Ana Quintana 

Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced a series of drastic policy changes toward Cuba. What many may now view as concessions to the Castro regime following a prisoner swap was in fact the White House ending the U.S.’s long tradition of supporting human rights and democratic reforms on the island.

The new policy approach follows the release of Alan Gross, a U.S. aid contractor who was kept hostage for more than five years by the Cuban government. In exchange, the Obama administration freed three convicted Cuban spies who were sent to the U.S. more than 20 years ago to infiltrate U.S. military facilities. Their spying led to the deaths of Americans after their aircraft was shot down by Cuban military jets.

There are three questions the Obama administration needs to answer about its recent policy changes toward Cuba.

• Does this mean the trade embargo is over?

• How has U.S. policy changed?

• How will this affect the United States?

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