Thanks for your visit. It will bring hope to the oppressed Cuban people who will listen to your speech through Radio Marti. Thanks to all of you for your continuing support. Today. we are commemorating Cubas National Independence Day and the first Anniversary of Radio Marti. I would like to begin by sharing with you a real story that occurred 26 years ago. A few days after my arrival from Cuba. as a political refugee in July 1960. I went to North Carolina to visit some of my former college professors. One night in a meeting at a friends home.