// posted by andreshb // 05.08.2008 at 2:13 pm //

Blogging threatens Castro’s control of media in Cuba

Generacion Y is a blog ran by cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez that recently made it to Time Magazine Top 100 most influential people.

More important, 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. The pieces she has been clandestinely sending out from Internet cafés—while posing as a tourist—are often funny, elegantly written and poignant. Her subjects have included the shortage of lemons, the turgid proceedings of the Cuban parliament and the slowness of meaningful reforms by Raúl Castro. [via Time]

Now what is interesting to consider is how the government is dealing with Yoani. First, official Cuban media highlighted that Evo Morales had made it to Time 100, but there was no mention of her and when she was invited to go to Spain to receive the Ortega & Gasset award for Digital Journalism, government officials delayed her travel permit and withheld her passport. To this she said:

“They forget that in cyberspace my voice can travel without limits, it can come and go without asking for permission” (translated Generacion Y)

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