Politics: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stung Donald Trump yesterday, wining primaries in Kansas and Maine by healthy margins. Trump took Kentucky and Louisiana by only a few percentage points each. Trump called for Marco Rubio to drop out of the race. “I would love to take on Ted one on one,” he said. “I want Ted one on one.

The News: Astronaut Scott Kelly told reporters that 340 days in space is a long time. “I think the only big surprise was how long a year is “It seemed like I lived there forever. It seemed longer than I thought it would be.”

He traveled nearly 144 million miles on the International Space Station. Kelly said all that weightlessness and not touching things

Caused his skin to become sensitive, developing “almost like a burning feeling.” And since landing gravity has returned Kelly’s height to earth. He’s already lost the 1 1/2 inches he gained in space.

The Cuba Diaries: Most days in Havana’s Parque Central there is a group of men talking and passionately arguing. They aren’t talking politics. The subject is baseball, the national sport and obsession of Cuba. It’s a little unusual, but even more so because they are licensed by the government to go to the park and argue. No big public discussions here about anything unless the government approves.

Most of the news here in Cuba is good news, which is not to say that all the news is really good, but the news that’s reported is good. The lead story on the front page of the Gramma International newspaper is about a festival to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the Cohiba brand cigar.

Other stories are about how Cuban athletes are hopeful about the Rio Olympics and that Cuba is a leader in neuroscience medicine. They don’t have American political knife fights here. According to one headline, leaders are looking forward to the 7^th Party Congress, where, according to the story, greater representation will be guaranteed for all Communist Party members.

The one spot of bad news on page five is that a single case of the Zika virus has showed up in Cuba. A Venezuelan doctor, a woman, came to Cuba in February with the disease.

Cuba has acceptable cellphone service, but you can’t link to the Internet on a portable device and WiFi is hard to find. You have to buy a government Internet card that gives you an hour of service for about $5. People collect in the street outside hotel lobbies and bars to pick up a WiFi signal and tap in.

On Friday night young people in their club wear collected on the sidewalk outside the Il Pina del Plata bar with the glow of their cellphones lighting their faces beneath the neon. While government controls the Internet, Cubans evidently know how to download an app called “Jailbreak,” which liberates their iPhones from the paternal capitalistic programming of Apple Corp.

Just down the street is the Floridita Bar, one of the many shrines to Ernest Hemingway. People pose with a bust of Hemingway at the end of the bar, and with a Hemingway lookalike. The hotel where Hemingway once lived. The Ambos Mundos, is decorated with walls full of Hemingway photographs. A giant framed Hemingway signature hangs in the lobby.

At night our group was schedule to have a meeting with a small chapter of the Committee to Defend the Revolution to hear a short lecture about political affairs in Cuba. They called to cancel as we were finishing dinner so we retired to the La Bodeguita del Medio where Hemingway drank his favorite Mojitos.

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