Marco Rubio is screaming that normalizing relations does nothing to help the impoverished Cubans. This is stupid.
Neither does maintaining the status quo. At least if trade someday resumes the tourist industry will be a boon as well as the tobacco and rum industries there.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs