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Yoani Sanchez summary
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal I haven’t posted much about Yoani Sanchez for a long time since she is making the main stream news so often, I figured anyone interested can read about her or follow her Twitter feed. Of course there is her Generation Y blog in English and Generación Y en español.… Read More
Generation Y blog now unblocked in Cuba
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Reuters Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said on Tuesday the Cuban government apparently has unblocked access to her blog, which had been off limits on the island’s Internet since 2008. In a posting on Twitter, she wondered how long Cuban Internet users would be able to view her Generation Y blog,… Read More
Julia Stiles meets with Yoani Sanchez in Cuba
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal Recently actress Julia Stiles was on a humanitarian trip to Havana Cuba where it was written that she was “stranded” because she ran out of money. What was left out of this Wall Street Journal article was that she met with world renowned Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez.… Read More
Cuba paying foreign businessmen in meal vouchers - Yoani
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Yoani Sanchez | Huffington Post Every night in the cabaret of a luxury hotel a European businessman goes from table to table making an unusual request. He approaches the guests and asks that when their bill comes, they let him pay it with the colored vouchers that he has in his pocket. In exchange, they… Read More
President Obama responds directly to Yoani Sanchez questions
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President Obama: Thank you for this opportunity to exchange views with you and your readers in Cuba and around the world and congratulations on receiving the Maria Moore Cabot Prize award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for coverage of Latin America that furthers inter-American… Read More
Reinaldo Escobar, husband of Yoani Sanchez, challenges Cuban security agents
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By Will Weissert The husband of an internationally known dissident Cuban blogger is challenging the presumed state security agents who roughed up his wife to a verbal duel on a Havana street corner. Reinaldo Escobar said Thursday he feels compelled both as a husband and open critic of the communist government… Read More
No Violence rally in Vedado Cuba - Yoani and Pardo detained, returned home
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by Jeff Franks and Rosa Tania Valdes | Reuters Well-known Cuban blogger and government critic Yoani Sanchez said she and two fellow bloggers were detained briefly on Friday by security agents and accused of being “counter-revolutionaries” as they walked to a demonstration against violence.… Read More
Yoani Sanchez denied permission to travel to Cuba for journalism prize
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By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA | Associated Press A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. Yoani Sanchez had hoped to go… Read More
Yoani Sanchez blog promotes dialog with Cuban youth
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BY LYDIA MARTIN | Miami Herald Yoani Sánchez, the blogger who has gained an international following detailing the absurdities of daily life in Cuba, is on the phone from her 14th-floor apartment in Havana, where the elevators rarely work. She speaks plainly, boldly, with none of the hemming and hawing… Read More
A revolution in Cuba with computers, not guns
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Yoani Sanchez is fighting a revolution in Cuba with computers, not guns. The Cuban government controls all the guns and information in Cuba but the Cuban government will be taken down with information, not guns. Yoani Sanchez is fighting for freedom in Cuba and we support her non-violet efforts and wish… Read More














