In the US government, the Cuban regime has an excellent boogeyman for the squalor its people live in. They have walked back liberalization before. After the co

In the US government, the Cuban regime has an excellent boogeyman for the squalor its people live in. They have walked back liberalization before. After the collapse of the USSR, which had sent enormous amounts of money to support the Castro regime, Cuba entered a serious economic crisis. Castro instituted a period of market reforms, and there was widespread hope for political opening. But as soon as the economic situation improved sufficiently to keep buying off enough people to run the oppressive apparatus, it was all rolled back. Please don’t confuse the interests of the Cuban people with the interests of the Cuban regime. The latter cares about one thing only: stay in power.