The U.S. policy toward Cuba is not exclusively explained by the influence of what is known as the Cuban-American lobby. Historically, its limits have been decided by frameworks like national interest or security questions. In mid-December 1984, for example, the United States and Cuba signed migration agreements under the Reagan administration in a context of tensions marked, among other things, by the Central American conflict and Alexander Haig\u2019s appeal to \u201cgo to the source\u201d \u2013 that is to say, invading the island. The members of the lobby, and its environs, only found out about these agreements through the media.<\/p>\n
More recently, some seemed convinced that the Trump administration was going to reverse all the measures promoted by the previous one. \u201cPence and Trump,\u201d Mario D\u00edaz-Balart said in November 2016, \u201chave publicly stated \u2013 and have privately reiterated to many persons \u2013 that they are going to enforce the law and, to enforce it, they are going to eliminate the unilateral concessions given by President Obama to the Castro brothers\u2019 dictatorship.\u201d This, until now, in the end has not occurred.<\/p>\n