Odds and ends

• He starts with a parable and pushes hard on a hard question – not who must die, but what must die if Cuba is to change. If you read Spanish, read this column from Ariel Hidalgo.

• The Organization of American States, pressed by Venezuela to call for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, found a lowest-common-denominator consensus: a resolution that condemns terrorism, endorses extradition “as appropriate” to fight terrorism, and leaves Posada’s name out of it.

• From the Palm Beach Post, a good roundup on Cuba’s cuentapropistas.