Change is the hardest part of changing US policy towards Cuba because the legal and regulatory elements are old and thus deeply baked in to ongoing operations.

Change is the hardest part of changing US policy towards Cuba because the legal and regulatory elements are old and thus deeply baked in to ongoing operations. Potential alignment of Cuba for other adversaries isn’t a serious enough threat nor engagement a sufficient benefit to overcome government inertia. Cuba isn’t as much of a mess as Haiti and also isn’t a tiny success like Singapore. Here is hoping that Cuba will be able to help itself out of a perhaps weakening despotism but the default hypothesis is not to hold one’s breath.