Our embargo with Cuba has to be the only thing left keeping the Cuban communists on life support. Lift all restrictions, and the tidal wave of US dollars from across the straits will simply swamp the system. Folks will be so busy chasing all the money pouring in they won't have time to remember they are supposed to be Communists, and that will go for most of the enforcers there as well.
This situation hasn't made sense since the fall of the Berlin wall