[Boreas]

The efforts of the US government to make Cuba into a pariah state have caused untold suffering to ordinary Cubans while doing nothing to loosen the Castros' grip on power. In fact, it had the opposite effect.

It also wounded the American psyche in many ways, not least of which is the Cuban refugees' anger over the Bay of Pigs and of Kennedy's refusal to invade Cuba in the wake of the Missile Crisis. This prompted some of those refugees to involve themselves with the assassination of JFK.

So, yes. Definitely and long overdue.

John