The United States promotes democracy, freedom and respect for human rights around the world, from Haiti to Central Africa to South Asia to China to Cuba. We do so not because we wish to impose our values or way of life. Precisely the opposite is true. We want the people of every nation to be able to determine for themselves who their leaders should be, how their laws should be made, and how their lives should be led. That's not an imposition.
Dictatorship is an imposition.
Democracy is choice. Like Jose Marti, the United States does not believe that democratic freedoms are the rightful property of some people in some places. We believe they are universal and belong to all people on all continents. That is why we want to see democracy come to Cuba. We know that the transition from a centralized government to a more open one can be hard.