More from Wikileaks

A way with words: Venezuela donated three electricity plants to Haiti, with plans for Cuba to assist in the installation, and the U.S. Embassy report begins: “Venezuela and Cuba appear to be taking advantage of Haiti’s electricity gap.” The Wikileaked cable from 2007 is here.

The U.S. Embassy in Panama reported on the pardons given to Luis Posada Carriles and his associates by former President Mireya Moscoso as she was leaving office in 2004. The cable reports on all the speculation, in Panama’s press and elsewhere, about her reasons for granting the pardons. An earlier cable, written as the “anti-Castro Cuban Americans” awaited the judge’s decision, is here.

Odds and ends

• Along the Malecon reports that the Luis Posada Carriles trial has been postponed pursuant to a sealed prosecution motion, and 90 percent of filings to date are secret.

• The Wall Street Journal: A story of a Cuban American’s return to his childhood home, as narrated by his wife.

• At Global Post, Nick Miroff looks at television viewing habits in Cuba, where state television “is politically biased and often tedious, [but] hardly a drab, droning monotony of pro-Castro propaganda.” The irrelevance of TV Marti shines through.

• An American conservative goes to Cuba and comes back with this opinion, which he wrote in a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “If we want to get communism out of Cuba, end the embargo.” Speaking of American conservatives,

• Mining Weekly notes a Cuban television news report that says that the joint Cuban-Venezuelan project to activate the Camarioca nickel plant, a mothballed Czechoslovak project from COMECON days, is moving forward. In 2005, there were announcements that China would be the partner in this project and in a Camaguey nickel mining venture, but China ended its involvement without fanfare.