Comments on: A Tribute to Outgoing Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon http://www.coha.org/a-tribute-to-outgoing-assistant-secretary-of-state-tom-shannon/ COHA is an NGO specialized in monitoring Latin American and Canadian Relations for more than 30 years... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John McAuliff http://www.coha.org/a-tribute-to-outgoing-assistant-secretary-of-state-tom-shannon/comment-page-1/#comment-29531 John McAuliff Thu, 28 May 2009 18:19:16 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=4367#comment-29531 The tribute is merited. His political masters limited Tom Shannon's ability to do all he could have during his tenure, but imagine if he hadn't been there. It is a pity that even the Obama Administration did not give him all the arrows his Cuba quiver could hold, most notably by backing away from non-tourist travel due to pressure from Sen. Menendez Add to Shannon's credit the appointment of Jonathan Farrar to head the US Interests Section in Havana, a much superior professional choice to his Reich-Noriega shaped predecessors. The tribute is merited. His political masters limited Tom Shannon’s ability to do all he could have during his tenure, but imagine if he hadn’t been there.

It is a pity that even the Obama Administration did not give him all the arrows his Cuba quiver could hold, most notably by backing away from non-tourist travel due to pressure from Sen. Menendez

Add to Shannon’s credit the appointment of Jonathan Farrar to head the US Interests Section in Havana, a much superior professional choice to his Reich-Noriega shaped predecessors.

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