Odds and ends

• Virginia’s agriculture commissioner leads a sales delegation to Havana next month.

• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin visited Cuba to learn about disaster response, prompting Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio to take a shot at “Hurricane Fidel” in National Review Online.

• Orlando Sentinel: Recent immigrants from Cuba are prominent in the Florida indoor marijuana growing business.

• Blunder time: Spain’s ABC reports that Cuba has rejected the U.S. offer to ease restrictions on diplomats’ movements, citing a Herald article that reports only that Cuba has not responded.

• Globalpost’s Nick Miroff has a narrated slideshow on Cuba’s Coney Island.

• Reuters on Cubans’ use of Facebook.

• The Herald’s ombudsman does a long and careful examination of allegations against columnist Marifeli Perez-Stable and concludes: “Unless her critics can come up with something firm, their accusations border on paranoia and slander.”