Odds and ends

• When Trinidad Jimenez, Spain’s top diplomat for Latin America, went to Miami to meet a range of Cuban American groups, it’s reported that she got an earful about the Cuban opposition, and which of its members are and are not genuine. Coverage at Mambi Watch.

• Elizardo Sanchez: 35 members of the opposition arrested in the past 11 days, seven remain in jail. AP coverage here (English), Reuters Spanish here.

• Castro’s nomination for a National Assembly seat means that reforms will be blocked, dissidents say. Martha Beatriz Roque: “We have seen that on one hand his brother Raul says one thing, Fidel says another, they contradict each other, one doesn’t know who is governing here.”