Odds and ends
- The Raul Castro government
continues the tactic of short-term detention of political opponents,
Tracey Eaton reported in detail in USA
Today, and the number of political prisoners reported by human rights
monitor Elizardo Sanchez rose in 2012 (Herald).
- The U.S. Interests Section
in Havana is running
a contest based on questions about the United States. Answers are submitted by text
message. Of those who answer
correctly, five winners are chosen at random, and their prize is $11 of
credit on their cell phone account.
(H/t Emilio Ichikawa)
- En route to making a
serious point – that U.S. interests would be better served by ending
restrictions on travel to Cuba – Senator Jeff Flake made a brief quip in a
hearing yesterday about the hypothetical impact of U.S. students on spring
break in Cuba. Senator Bob Menendez
got on his high horse to deliver a rebuke, invoking democracy advocates in
Cuba. Most of them, of course,
oppose government travel restrictions everywhere because they have hated
those imposed by their own government for so long. (CNN)
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