*"The Cuban regime does not represent the people," says chief U.S. diplomat

-Contributed by Erwin Cifuentes. The highest-ranking U.S. diplomat in Cuba blasted the Cuban government in a speech to dissidents and foreign diplomats. U.S. mission chief Michael Parmly went so far as to compare the prosecution of opponents of the Castro regime to practices done by in Nazi Germany or by the Ku Klux Klan.