Odds and ends

• Francine Robles provides an English translation on her blog of a note from Miriam Leiva describing the Mother’s Day activities of Las Damas de Blanco.

• While Cuba carries out a public trial of its own, today’s El Nuevo Herald report on Luis Posada Carriles contains this sentence:

“The New Jersey investigation is in the final stage and could bring charges of financing actions that violate the Neutrality Act, according to sources linked to the case.”

• Fidel Castro’s latest “reflection,” in large part his own summarization of presentations at a recent Havana conference, is another reminder of Cuba’s 180-degree turn on ethanol. One year ago, Cuba’s position was that it was seeking foreign investors to modernize sugar production and to build ethanol production capacity. No more.