Odds and ends

• Herald: Cardinal Ortega is back in Washington.

• Miami New Times: Rumors of a high-level official visit to Cuba.
  

• At Along the Malecon, Tracey Eaton summarizes Cuban attitudes and sums up impressions of a recent visit.

• Texas rice farmers need markets and would really like to sell to Cuba; that’s the gist of stories by the Voice of America and the Austin American-Statesman.