Odds and ends

• Looking for ways to save money, Senator Feingold proposes eliminating broadcasts to Cuba.

• Representative Jeff Flake differs with last week’s Washington Post editorial on U.S. travel restrictions.

• Juventud Rebelde: free music downloads until February 25 at the new website of EGREM, the Cuban music recording and production company.

• AFP Spanish on the Internet in Cuba, with a story about a Cuban who used his position as the IT guy in a state enterprise to sell black-market Internet access. He earned $500 per month until he got caught.

• Diario de Cuba: Cuban ballplayers will play a benefit for Haiti relief February 6 at the University of Miami.

• At Along the Malecon, more on the Posada Carriles pretrial: prosecution and defense motions (with links to court documents) about Posada’s past and what can be admitted in evidence, and an interview with a Posada friend.