Call for Normalization: Ending the Antiquated US Cuba Policy‪.‬

FERNANDO REMIREZ is Counselor of the Cuban Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, DC, and serves as the de facto Cuban Ambassador to the United States. Shortly before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy told the French journalist Jean Daniel: "I believe that there is no country in the world, including all the African regions, including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation, and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country's policies during the Batista regime." Although Kennedy limited