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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 understanding. You richly deserve the award. I was disappointed you were denied the ability to travel to receive the award in person.
Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba. It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with…
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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 to avenge an incident last week, when two men in plainclothes allegedly forced political blogger Yoani Sanchez into an unmarked sedan, pulled her hair and kicked her.
The confrontation was so violent, Sanchez said she thought the men might kill her, but instead they dropped her off near her…
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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.
Sanchez, 34, told Reuters the agents forced her and blogger Orlando Luis Pardo into a car as they neared the demonstration in Havana’s Vedado district, took them to a spot near her home and dropped them off, throwing her purse on the street as they drove away.
“We were detained by three men who came in…
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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 to Columbia University for a Wednesday ceremony to receive her Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the oldest international award in journalism.
“Immigration just confirmed that I remain prohibited from leaving the country,” she posted on her “Generation Y” blog.
There was no confirmation from the government, but Cuban authorities almost never comment on…
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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 common among folks on the island who fear their phones are tapped.
Sánchez is certain hers is. She is constantly followed, too. None of this stops her from finding ways, despite government attempts to block her, of continuing to post to Generación Y, the blog she launched in April 2007…
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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 her much success on her journey.
In these photos you can see her training the “revolutionaries” at the training camp. She is now actively traveling around Cuba to train more revolutionaries to write their own blogs and to fight for their freedoms.
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Well known Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has been very active lately blogging about everyday life in Cuba and she has posted an article about how people can assist the Cuban blogging movement in Cuba.
She says her request goes out to “citizens of the whole world and rests on the solidarity among people that has nothing to do with political stripes or ideological preferences.
* Link to the blogs from Cuba.
* Spread the Cuban blog articles.
* Invite alternative bloggers to participate.
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
Yoani Sanchez recorded a video of her husband Reinaldo Escobar at the Melia Cohiba in Havana Cuba being denied Internet access because he is a Cuban citizen.
It is internationally known that the Cuban government has been restricting the rights of Cuban citizens for decades but I never gave much thought to how the internationally respected Sol Melia corporation works with the Cuban government as an enabler of this human rights violation. Yes, a human rights violation. Today, access to the Internet should be a…
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By Ray Sanchez | Sun Sentinel
Cuba is further limiting access to the World Wide Web for its citizens, in what many believe is an effort to rein in a small but increasingly popular group of bloggers who are critical of the government.
Only government employees, academics and researchers are allowed their own Internet accounts, which are provided by the state, but only have limited access to sites outside the island. Ordinary Cubans may open e-mail accounts accessible at many post offices, but do not have access to the Web. Many got around the restrictions by using hotel Internet…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
On Monday March 30, 2009 Yoani Sanchez was allowed to speak at a Biennial Habana art event. She was allowed to speak briefly at an open microphone and seized the opportunity well. She wrote about her time at the microphone and a video has come out of Cuba.
Yoani writes “An unforgettable night yesterday at the Wilfredo Lam Center, thanks to the performance artist Tania Bruguera. A podium with microphones, in front of an enormous red curtain, formed part of the interactive installation in the central courtyard. Everyone who wanted to…
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