President Trump is expected this Friday to reverse the Obama administration’s policy of opening up political and economic relations with Cuba. Thanks in part to the advocacy of Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio and Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, America will likely return to a policy that allows us to exert our political, moral, and economic strength to push for freedom and human rights in an authoritarian regime just a hundred miles from America’s shores.

It has already been over half a year since Fidel Castro passed away at age 90 as a seemingly out-of-place historical icon, with a peace that few of his victims knew. Just like when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez passed away in 2013 or North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il in 2011, there was briefly a flash of hope that this would be an opportunity for the repressive police state and command economy to finally unravel itself.