Odds and ends

• EFE: An EU official is on her way to Cuba with an offer of 37 million Euros in aid. Projects are likely to focus on post-hurricane reconstruction, agriculture, and the environment.

• AFP talks to farmers who have received land grants and who are seeking them, and finds that the process is slow.

• In a long interview with the newspaper El Nuevo Diario, former Sandinista comandante (and now Nicaraguan ambassador to Peru) Tomas Borge looks back, 30 years after the Sandinistas took over, and thinks about advice that Fidel Castro gave and that the Sandinistas didn’t take.

• Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez, trying to make a comeback, is released by the Texas Rangers organization after a month in Triple A.

• A Hemingway controversy about a manuscript he finished in Cuba.