Odds and ends

• Veteran New York Timesman Stephen Kinzer writes about returning to “a different Cuba” after 25 years, where people complain out in the open

• AFP: Cuba and Spain will continue talks on human rights on Thursday in Madrid.

• The Toronto Star takes a long look at Cuban baseball’s talent drain. In passing, it cites this report that a Boston Red Sox executive was in Cuba.

• It’s good to have a reporter in the neighborhood; Tracey Eaton digs up the details on the Key West-Havana windsurfer story. Nothing to do with Cuba, but this sea journey is a lot more interesting.

• From the Philadephia Inquirer, an interview with clarinet/saxophone virtuoso Paquito D’Rivera.