Not your usual article in Granma

“Cardinal Ortega describes dialogue between Raul and ecclesiastical authorities as positive” – headline of a May 21 Granma article that gives a brief account of a press conference by Cardinal Ortega, then runs the text of a Church press release on the upcoming visit of the Vatican Secretary of State, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti.

The release concludes by saying that Mamberti’s visit “is not related to the efforts that the Church in Cuba has undertaken in recent weeks before the authorities of the country in favor of the prisoners and the Damas de Blanco.”