I'M SO SHOCKED AT THIS; WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT..? – AT 9:58 A.M. ET:  You mean, the genius Obama's opening to Cuba hasn't produced instant democracy in that island nation?  My pills!  Get me my pills!  From the Miami Herald:   

A leading Cuban dissident Wednesday described his homeland as in foment, with political repression on the rise, opposition to the Castro government growing and a fledgling movement toward capitalist outposts in the communist country that has left people puzzled.

In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session in Washington, José Daniel Ferrer García, who was imprisoned from 2003 to 2011, said he supported the opening with Cuba that President Barack Obama initiated in December 2014. But he acknowledged that other dissident leaders are against it and said the opposition movement was generally split.

He also decried the continued flow of people from Cuba, which saw some 38,000 arrive in the United States last year, more than twice as many as in 2013. He urged his fellow Cubans to stay home.

“People feel that either you obey (the government) or you leave the country,” Ferrer said. “Our message is that there is a third option: You can enjoy freedom here if you fight for it.”

Ferrer’s news conference in Washington was part of a rare tour of the United States following the re-establishment of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic ties last year. His visit took him last week to South Florida, where he saw his mother and brother in Palm Beach for the first time since they left Cuba five years ago. While there, he met with the editorial board of the Miami Herald. A sister left Cuba more recently and lives in Austin, Texas.

After his Washington briefing, Ferrer flew to New York, where he met with Samantha Powers, the U.S. representative to the United Nations. He also was scheduled to meet with editors and reporters at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

COMMENT:  I think we could gotten so much more for the people of Cuba in our negotiations to begin ties with the Castro regime.   We threw the people of Cuba under the bus just so Obama could get his photo op while visiting Havana recently.  It's the legacy, you know.

He did the same last week when visiting Vietnam.  No mention of human rights.  Obama is truly a man of the left.  No liberal he.

June 2, 2016