Odds and ends

• The last surviving signer of Cuba’s progressive constitution of 1940, Emilio Ochoa of Holguin, died in Miami at age 99. R.I.P.

• Carlos Alberto Montaner accuses Spain of forming its policy toward Cuba based on electoral considerations. Imagine that.

• In advance of a National Assembly discussion tomorrow, AP’s Anita Snow examines food production, the farmers markets, and other means of food sale and distribution in Cuba. Reuters reports that, according to Carlos Lage, the Cuban government has made good on a 145-million-peso debt owed to agricultural producers, an issue that drew complaints from Raul Castro in the National Assembly last year. A Lexington study on these issues is here (pdf).