We are lucky. Whenever we feel like it we can switch on our PCs, fancy laptops, notebooks etc and write in out blogs, read other people’s journals and comment on them. It's all easy for us.
Now please meet a lady who doesn’t enjoy this freedom.
Yoani Sánchez, 34, webmaster and journalist of Desdecuba.com, lives in Havana and has become famous all over the world for its blog, Generación Y (http://desdecuba.com/generaciony) which she is able to publish despite censorship in Cuba by e-mailing entries to friends outside the country, who then post them online. She’s been listed by Time Magazine in the directory of the one hundred more influential people in 2008 stating that "as one of the under the nose of a regime that has never tolerated dissent, Sánchez has practiced what paper-bound journalists in her country cannot: freedom of speech”. She is a strange kind of dissident, she does not speak out against anybody, attack or blame the Government but simply writes what’s like living in Cuba today. From her blog a book, Cuba Libre, was published in Italy by Rizzoli and will be soon translated into more languages. Yoani was invited to attend the International Book Festival in Turin, an invitation arranged by her Italian Translator, Gordiano Lupi, but permission to travel was denied.
Now please meet a lady who doesn’t enjoy this freedom.
Yoani Sánchez, 34, webmaster and journalist of Desdecuba.com, lives in Havana and has become famous all over the world for its blog, Generación Y (http://desdecuba.com/generaciony) which she is able to publish despite censorship in Cuba by e-mailing entries to friends outside the country, who then post them online. She’s been listed by Time Magazine in the directory of the one hundred more influential people in 2008 stating that "as one of the under the nose of a regime that has never tolerated dissent, Sánchez has practiced what paper-bound journalists in her country cannot: freedom of speech”. She is a strange kind of dissident, she does not speak out against anybody, attack or blame the Government but simply writes what’s like living in Cuba today. From her blog a book, Cuba Libre, was published in Italy by Rizzoli and will be soon translated into more languages. Yoani was invited to attend the International Book Festival in Turin, an invitation arranged by her Italian Translator, Gordiano Lupi, but permission to travel was denied.
