Every once in a while Obama actually does something right. Cuba has released the 53 prisoners according to the deal so that is one less arrow in the quiver of the naysayers. Normalization with Cuba should have been done along time ago. Clearly isolating them didn't do anything and since they could still trade with Europe and Canada and other countries the embargo was toothless and its time for another approach. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-usa-cuba-prisoners-idUSKBN0KL10K20150112