Odds and ends

• Miriam Leiva’s note last week on the passing of her husband Oscar Espinosa Chepe.

• AP: 182,799 Cubans have traveled abroad in the eight months since restrictions were largely eliminated.

• Geoff Thale and Ana Goerdt of the Washington Office on Latin America on the state of internal criticism in Cuba, and the government’s response to it.

• AFP: Cuba and the United States talked September 20 about search and rescue operations and collaboration, with both sides’ Coast Guards at the table.  Cuban delegation statement here.

• In Cuba Standard, an English language version of the article on the Cuban Supreme Court’s housing decision.

• Granma on the eternal question: does is it pay off to play short in center field?  A review of the evidence says no.

• Juventud Rebelde on a very honest man in Matanzas.