CUBA UPDATE President Biden issued a statement from the White House yesterday: "We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom." The Washington Post and the New York Times publish political assessments and say that Biden "sid[ed] so starkly with the dissidents, Biden seized on what some Democrats see as an unexpected opening for their party to chart a course correction on Cuba and rebrand its strategy after years of being seen by some voters — particularly in Florida — as too accommodating of the authoritarian regime and perhaps too soft on communism in general."