Odds and Ends

• A Canadian freelancer’s advice for travelers to Cuba: “Go and see the real thing.”

• If the United States and Cuba were to start a dialogue, what would Cuba propose to discuss? Columnist DeWayne Wickham visits Minrex and gets some answers. (H/t: Rui Ferreira)

• U.S. Congressman (and blogger) Thaddeus McCotter sums up his “disappointment” with the EU decision to lift its 2003 sanctions: “Oh, Sister Europa, another betrayal of Lady Liberty’s Cuban children in your mounting annals of shame!” Oh, Thaddeus! What are “mounting annals?”

• Another look at the EU decision from Stephen Wilkinson of London Metropolitan University, in the Guardian.