Odds and ends

• The Herald has more on the Juanita Castro memoir.

• Carlos Miller of the blog miamibeach411, prompted by last week’s poll, takes a long and balanced look at the question, “Is Cuban Loyalty to the Republican Party Fading?”

• AP: New Bolivian passports will be of Cuban manufacture.

• The writings of dissidents Miriam Leiva and Oscar Espinosa Chepe are compiled here.

• In this story by the Herald’s Jordan Levin, Puerto Rican singer Olga Tanon reflects on the experience of performing in Cuba at the Juanes concert: “With all the respect in the world for Cuban exiles that have suffered tremendously, I think it's time to change.”

• The blog DCist reports on a gas leak that caused the partial evacuation of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington last week. D.C. firefighters responded, but not all were allowed in.