Odds and ends

• Secretary of State Clinton gave an interview yesterday to Venezuela’s Globovision, speaking mainly about Honduras and other topics. In one question about Cuba, she expressed a desire “to see fundamental changes in the Cuban regime.” The State Department transcript is here, and Globovision’s in Spanish is here.
  

• The White House announces that former Congressional candidate and Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair Joe Garcia is going to the Department of Energy.

• Reuters: another postponement of plans for renewed drilling for Cuba’s offshore oil.

• Orioles announcer Gary Thorne writes in the Bangor Daily News about Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman and Oriole Danys Baez, in whose footsteps he is following.

• Cuba’a 2008 statistical yearbook is on-line.