Odds and ends

• The Christian Science Monitor on the dissident movement in Cuba, and why women are leading it – because they tend not to get locked up.

• Two American students at Cuba’s Latin American Medical School have written a journal article about the school and the academic experience. It’s a minor point in this article, but I didn’t know that a U.S. organization (the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization) pre-screens and briefs U.S. applicants.

• At a blog called “Beautiful Horizons,” which a reader pointed out, Frank Calzon of the Center for a Free Cuba affably explains the facts regarding the apparent embezzlement of $500,000 or more in government funds from his organization by a former employee.