Odds and ends

• The USAID-funded study on Cuba property claims was released Wednesday (10-page summary here, pdf; Herald’s story here).

• The State Department starts a blog, “DipNote.”

• EFE covers an exchange between students and Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque. It seems they asked about everything but foreign policy, including what happens “if they lift the [U.S.] embargo and we were to continue with some of the management practices [métodos de dirección] that we have, that are so deficient…”