Thanks for the plug chief.

This is really a trite, self-serving speech, no different than similar others that the State Department has been churning out about Cuba for decades. The work of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana of passing out information about the United States, is no different than what American Embassies do in all foreign countries, especially in Islamic nations.
How has the Castro regime been significantly undermined during Cason’s tenure in Havana? Somebody please tell me. I just do not see it.
Cason did not mention in his speech his blatant collaboration with the Castro regime by going on Cuban TV and warning possible hijackers that they would be jailed and prosecuted in the U.S. "The United States will deploy its homeland security forces to interdict any hijacked conveyance bound for the United States," Cason's statement said, adding that all hijackers "will be prosecuted with the full force of the U.S. legal system."
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/hijackers-returned.htm
Another warning that Cason issued over Castro’s news network to all balseros stated that "Cuban citizens who take to the sea in a mistaken effort to reach the U.S. coast in an illegal and unsafe manner should be aware that our country's security agents will make every effort to intercept them."
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/immigration/boat-truck-1.htm
His warnings were constantly repeated on Radio and TV Marti.
Cason even helped the Castro regime in April 2003 by trying to convince a plane hijacker in the Isle of Pines to surrender. Cason warned the hijacker during negotiations that he would be prosecuted and not offered asylum if he took the plane to Florida.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/surrenders.htm
Cason leaves behind in Cuban jails the scores of dissidents he initially went there to assist. He offers no plan for obtaining their release.
During the trials of the 75 dissidents, it was revealed that numerous undercover Castro agents and chivatos had received the cameras, copiers, and laptops that Cason was handing out. This demonstrates faulty intelligence and a waste of taxpayer dollars for the benefit of Castro.
Cason also offers no solution for how the U.S. is going to permanently stop the jamming of Radio and TV Marti.
He sees democracy in Cuba as an ongoing relay race and cannot predict how far the finish line is.
Cason ended his speech with "Viva Cuba Libre." Couldn’t he be more original than that? That was the same way Ronald Reagan ended his speech when he visited Miami on May 20, 1983. That was 22 years ago! U.S. policy toward Cuba has not changed much since then.
If this is all that the U.S. government has in its arsenal against Fidel Castro, he will die of old age.

Can't help but reluctantly agree with Delacova. When it comes to Cuba, at least since November 1960, it seems there's been a barrage of promises and platitudes aimed at Cubans on both sides of the Florida straits, and not that much to show for it, other than the USA opening its doors and providing an escape route out of kagaSStroffe's hellish kingdom. I believe the best friend we had, the one who would have walked the talk, was Richard M. Nixon, had he been elected president November 1960. Alas, it was not to be although one is left to wonder what would have happened if he had not been such a gentleman, and had insisted, as aides and advisors wanted him to, on a vote recount. Something the Demos conveniently overlooked during the controversy over the 2000 election.

1960-61 would have been the perfect time to eliminate the olive-green cancer when it was just a tiny polyp in the geopolitical anatomy of this hemisphere. Now, 46 years later, we see it metastasize even as the happy yappin' continues.