Among the Presidential Medals of Freedom that George W. Bush awarded was one to Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet, the democracy activist who has languished for many years in a Castroite dungeon. He is an “Afro-Cuban” physician, and his models are Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Biscet was not able to receive his medal in person (obviously). Maybe someday?
And a second P.S. — a P.P.S.: One day, years ago, Rep. Eliot Engel, the excellent New York Democrat, told me that his party had a “blind spot” about Cuba. I thought that was just the right way of putting it. And what a dismaying blind spot to have.