Odds and ends

• Raul Castro has returned from his travel to Russia, Angola, and Algeria, and tonight President Michelle Bachelet arrives, the fourth visit by a Latin American leader this year. Here is coverage from AFP Spanish, Chiles Noticias 123, and Granma.

• Orlando “Cachaito” Lopez, 76, bassist for Buena Vista Social Club, died in Havana. R.I.P.

• After his colleagues in the “Agenda para la Transición” group call for “urgent changes” in Radio Marti and criticize its content, dissident Rene Gomez Manzano says there’s no confrontation between the dissidents and Radio Marti. Go figure.

• Princeton considers establishing an academic program in Cuba, and the student newspaper editorialized in favor: academic contact should “not be limited to countries and political systems with which America maintains close ties,” the Daily Princetonian argues.