Every president has screwed with the blockade, typically making it more extreme.
Carter temporarily fought with it a little but Reagan dialed it up to new heights immediately.
Bush Sr. codifies it into law with Congress, preventing presidents from meaningfully ending the blockade.
Under Clinton there's the Helms-Burton Act, though Clinton makes small relaxing tweaks to the blockade late in his second term.
Bush Jr. does his best to apply maximum pressure and end the Cuban government, creating and funding new and large working groups for how to do so, following their policy recommendations. Their explicit goal is "regime change" and their demands are primarily privatization; they often forget to slap on the liberal "democracy" pretext.
Obama relaxes some restrictions but if he wanted to make long-lasting change, he'd need to change the law. He makes no attempt to do so and his changes are summarily undone by Trump.
Every president has screwed with the blockade, typically making it more extreme.
Carter temporarily fought with it a little but Reagan dialed it up to new heights immediately.
Bush Sr. codifies it into law with Congress, preventing presidents from meaningfully ending the blockade.
Under Clinton there's the Helms-Burton Act, though Clinton makes small relaxing tweaks to the blockade late in his second term.
Bush Jr. does his best to apply maximum pressure and end the Cuban government, creating and funding new and large working groups for how to do so, following their policy recommendations. Their explicit goal is "regime change" and their demands are primarily privatization; they often forget to slap on the liberal "democracy" pretext.
Obama relaxes some restrictions but if he wanted to make long-lasting change, he'd need to change the law. He makes no attempt to do so and his changes are summarily undone by Trump.
Biden has continued Trump's policies.