Miscellanea

• U.S. Senator Russ Feingold says it’s time to de-fund Radio and TV Martí.

• There are 344 Cuban medics working in Haiti today, they have two improvised hospitals where they are providing services to the earthquake victims.

• For the first time in nearly half a century, a shipping line will provide weekly transport from Houston’s docks to Cuba.

• The Harper government has reached a new agreement with Cuba’s communist regime that will give Canadian airlines expanded access to the Caribbean island’s sunny skies.

• Canadian mining and energy company Sherritt International will build a third gas-fired power plant in Cuba in conjunction with its state partners.

• From the New York Times Sunday Book Review: In his eccentric and often affecting memoir “Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile’s Hunger for Home,” [Eduardo] Machado, a noted Cuban-American playwright, tells the story of his rootless, self-invented life, using food as his connecting thread.

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