Odds and ends

• Here’s a new one: Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez says that Cuba “funds anti-American terrorist activities around the world.” That accusation didn’t make the cut in the State Department’s annual terrorism report.

• According to EFE, there will be a joint statement from the United States and the European Union today calling on Cuba to free all political prisoners.

• The Cuban American National Foundation report on the USAID Cuba program criticized the way the Directorio Democratico Cubano, a Miami organization, carries out its program. In El Nuevo Herald today, the Directorio’s director responds.

• AP looks at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs Museum and the plans to create another one in Miami.

• “Food production: a priority matter” – not the most enticing headline, but if you read down in the Granma article about a provincial Communist Party meeting, it says that the Havana party chief was sacked for “errors and indiscipline incompatible with his responsibilities.” And then Maria del Carmen Concepcion, a member of the party’s national secretariat, referring to the need to solve economic problems and to “multiply person-to-person ideological work,” is quoted as follows: “Either we solve these problems, or we ourselves destroy the Revolution that cost us so much blood and sweat.” EFE story here.