That's a good question. Here I would draw on the insights of my colleague. One thing we could do is to get the United States to normalize relations with Cuba. I think if anything would lead to a groundswell movement within Cuba for democratization, that would be it. The pretext that the government uses for maintaining the current system is the United States and its policy towards Cuba.
One detail I'd like to mention is that it appears that the United States a number of times was sending feelers out to try to change its relationship with Cuba—at the time of Jimmy Carter, for example, and under Clinton as well. The response from the Cuban side was the Mariel crisis in which they emptied the prisons and they took off to the United States. In the Clinton era it was the shooting down of the Brothers to the Rescue airplanes. That was the response of the Cuban government.
One could make an argument that while the Cuban government wants to blame all its problems on the United States, in fact the U.S. embargo and its relationship with the United States is Fidel's best friend. It serves as a means by which he can maintain his legitimacy.
However, your question is very good, but I don't have a good answer for you with respect to specific things we could do. Perhaps the continuing exchange of parliamentarians would be useful. Cuba's Parliament is quite a different phenomenon from ours. It's dominated by the Communist Party. It meets for four to six days in the year. That's all. It's basically a rubber stamp dominated by the party. The ministers are party members pretty much and are from the politburo or the central committee. However, it may well be that the learning experience through that type of interchange might be useful in the long run. Once again, short-run impacts might not be there.
I'm sorry, it's not too good an answer.