Odds and ends

• Missed this from last week: a meeting between U.S. and Cuban officials in Santo Domingo, at the level of the Secretary of State’s chief of staff and a Cuban deputy foreign minister, to discuss Haiti relief. Reuters report here.

• The Guardian on the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, with links at the end to videos of famous performances.

• Reuters: The American cruise industry, especially a guy from Royal Caribbean, has a snooty attitude about passenger port facilities in Cuba.

• The New York Times reviews a Manhattan performance of Bobby Carcasses.

• In the on-line magazine Sampsonia Way, an article on blogs in Cuba by Silvia Duarte, with link to Spanish version (pdf).