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 HAVANA (AP) - America's new top diplomat to Havana declared Thursday that the Cuban people — not the United States — will someday transform their communist nation into a lively democracy with a free exchange of ideas.
"Cubans aspire to change and that change is coming," Michael Parmly, chief of the U.S. Interest Section told The Associated Press in his first interview with an international news organization since arriving three months ago. "We are here to support and help in any way we can."
Far more diplomatic than his blunt-talking predecessor, James Cason, Parmly referred only indirectly to Cuban President Fidel Castro during the afternoon interview on the patio of his official residence. He did not speculate on when or how change would come or whether it was possible before the 79-year-old Castro dies.
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