Showing posts with label Yoani Sanchez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoani Sanchez. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Yoani Sanchez Havana's Newest Spain's "El Pais" Press Correspondent in Cuba

According to Penultimos Dias, since the Castro regime refuses to accredit correspondents from Spain's largest daily, El Paisthe newspaper has hired a local journalist already based in Havana.

Her name is Yoani Sanchez.

Kudos to El Pais

Perhaps this will serve as a lesson for all those "journalists" that have jeopardized their integrity to satisfy their dictatorial hosts. 



Sources:

Penultimos Dias

Capitol Hill Cubans
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Monday, March 30, 2009

One minute per person of liberty-Claudia Cadelo

From Cuba-Caudia Cadelo of Octavo Cerco narrates to us about the few minutes of freedom, artists and writers enjoyed last night in Havana, Cuba. This has no precedence. Let Freedom Reign!




Yoani Sanchez said only: "There is a performance, it will be good and I'm going to participate, be there at the Wifredo Lam Center at 8 in the evening."

I could never have imagined finding a podium and a microphone ready for all, for each of us. The place was crowded, to make it to the front row I had to slip through the multitude saying I want to get permits from the microphone. Everything began with a woman, white dove on her left shoulder, made a face without sound, (I should mention that this is meant as a mocking of Castro, who 50 years ago, stood before the Cuban people with a white dove on his shoulder, right before his reigh of terror began) while two boys, dressed in the uniform of the MININT, had the time to give an end to its intervention and throw her back to the muted plebs.

Yoani happened right after, she talked about the blogosphere, the censorship, and there was total silence and lots of applause when she finished, people knew and were happy. Then I ran and it was my turn, I was very nervous and had not had a microphone in front of an audience and listen to me since I was 9 years, when dressed in a pioneer uniform I assaulted a CDR(Commeteis in Defence of the Revolution) reunion, to read an incomprehensible statement, over time I developed a sort of phobia to that device only served to mask the reality my country.

I prepared a text which I read with a knowt on my throat:

That one day we will all have all the minutes of the day in front of a microphone to say anything we want. And incidentally also now have that opportunity, take a minute or even less, to tell the truth.

I got off, but I had so much more to say, then Reinaldo Escobar went up, he did not have enough time to finish, and the two in military unform took him down and the opportunity was the last they heard of his speech and with the feet placed on the floor. Time elapsed and no one else went up, people were frightened, and an artist said:

I am very afraid.

I walked toward the podium again and said: that one day freedom of speech in Cuba will not be a performance.



I remember other interventions:

Claudio Fuentes asked for a vote, after talking about dictatorship and of political prisoners called for the lifting of hands from those who agreed to change things, almost everyone raised their hands.

A Puerto Rican said that although he lived in a colony, in his country he had freedom of expression and asked to leave the microphone open 24 hours.

An American: I do not speak Spanish but: ¡viva la cambia!

Reinaldo Escobar with a black bag over his head took a second opportunity and said: I think this should be banned.

Hamlet Labastida, a plastic artist, called for democracy and for at least one more to go up to the podium, at least one.

Ciro Diaz was going to sing "The Commander", but time was up and not the boys dressed in military uniform, but a sullen sound man walked up and shouted: It's over!, While ordering: Disconnect it already!

A sizable audience was shouting: Ciro, Ciro, Ciro!, Like a "Porno Para Ricardo" concert asking for another song.

The rapid response squad was poor, with only two people, and I suppose they felt strange being the minority without power on the stage: a completely new experience for them.
Posted by Claudia at 5:32



Sunday, March 8, 2009

Like Cows to the Slaughter House


Yoani Sanchez, the blogger from Generation Y is accused of counterrevolution, for daring to have a meeting with a group of Cuban youth, where she talks about the possibility of helping them express themselves through a blog. This is very typical of the Castro Regime. They are so afraid of ideas and they can't stand for anyone to think different.


From the government, I always expect the worse, but when I hear people like the three in the video talk the way they do, it makes my blood boil, because this is precisely what has been happening in Cuba for over fifty years. They are nothing more then snitches!

Every time someone tries to make changes and ends up in jail for trying, he or she is left alone! It is my understanding that the majority of people in Cuba ignore the identity of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet. A man is rotting in prison, he is sacrificing his life, his youth and his family for defying the regime and asking for basic human right for unborn babies, and no one there knows his story.

Perhaps some of you may ask-well what's wrong with being labeled an Counterrevolutionary? Well a lot, because that word has cost the lives of thousands of Cubans.

The problem in Cuba is a never ending vicious cycle, but it has a solution. The answer is with the ones that left and today keep the dictatorship in power, with the financial help they give their families in Cuba. At this rate, it's never going to fall-and those three that today try to bury Yoani Sanchez, in a few years might also be supported by someone abroad or perhaps will move to Miami and pretend they are maggots (name given by the Castro Regime to the anticommunists). Meanwhile they will continue to obey their master, like cows on their way to the slaughter house.

Yoani puts herself in danger and this is how they repay her. I wish I could post a video with English subtitles. Basically these tree are throwing her under the bus and saying they are not interested in having access to the internet and that she was inciting them to write about the reality of Cuba, that no one is allowed to express in the only newspaper allowed-The Granma. These are University students and through they are trying to sound smart, they actually sound stupid.

There is a part where the female says that Yoani Sanchez was telling them that in the blog they can express their true feelings, as if there were anything wrong with that. They also said that they were appalled that a church building had been used for such meeting-and that's a joke, because many priests have lost their life in Cuba, at the hands of the Castro Regime and communists have never shown respect for any church and most of the dead at the hands of the communist throughout the world have been Christians. The number is at about 100 million.........

Monday, December 22, 2008

The DesdeCuba Blogs are not blocked!!


The blogs from Desdecuba.com were not blocked. I have been trying since this morning to no avail. Now I'm hearing from different Cuban blogs that they are not showing up are. They include: Generacion Y, Desde aqui, El blog de Dimas, Retazos, Potro Salvaje, Blog La Colmena y Lo Nuestro.

Fantomas said...Charlie Bravo said...
Apparently the site is under going some maintenance and should be up and running very soon. That's a relief.

Susana, a regular commenter at OctavoCerco apparently has talked to Yoani, and there's a maintainance problem affecting their umbrella site: desdecuba.com.
Yoani's message, verbatim:

"They are performing some maintainance on the server we use at desdecuba.com, so the problem doesn't seem to come from the "hairy and". Let's wait till tomorrow to see if everything gets back to normal".

I e-mailed Yoani, too, to offer some help in case she needed any.
Thanks to all who worried....

What happened to Yoani and Reinaldo's blogs?

I have just tried to enter Desdecuba.com and all the blogs are gone!! It's about 10:16 a.m. Pacific time. What is happening?

I'm having withdrawals!!!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Seed of Lucifer Vs Yoani Sanchez


During a resent Press Conference dealing with sexuality, at the Museo de Bellas Artes, in Havana, the daughter of Dictator Raul Castro, Mariela, a Sexologist and supposed defender of Homosexuals, and the famous Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, had a brief exchange.......

Mariela: Including treatment for transgender people is something that’s called for in the law. We don’t ask for more.

Yoani: I’d like to ask if this entire campaign being undertaken, in some way, for society to accept sexual preference could, at some point, move to other roles and will also fight for tolerance of other aspects which could be points of view and political and ideological preferences. Will we also come out of these closets?

Mariela: I don’t know because I don’t work in that area. The ideological and political field is outside my responsibility. I think I am doing the best I can given my ability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNGB9PLnF8

Now it would seem that the daughter of the "Lord of no Mercy", has grown airs of grandeur and look at how she talks about Yoani,

"All seems to indicate, that our opposition have ran out of intellectual resources, when they turn to individuals that are "insignificant and poorly prepared", that far from making it difficult for us, facilitate our area of work".

The "Seed of Lucifer", thinks that all the fuss she is making, will somehow give her the international influence and recognition that Yoani Sanchez has earned! Hahhhh, dream on!!

In the forum Cenecex, she refered to Yoani as a Gallita "female cock", to which Yoani replied, "in her language as a specialist in gender and sexuality, the word has homophobic connotations. Perhaps because I am ignorant about the terms of her specialty. I fail to understand what she wanted to tell me by saddling me with a masculine role in a feminine noun; yes, in the case of grammar I can boast about knowing something. Does she believe that I do the work of a man because I demand rights and claim respect for political preferences?"

The homophobic in disguise added among other things, that Yoani "doesn't seem to be interested in the rights of the Cubans, and instead in sabotaging the efforts that we are making to legitimatize ourselves". Say what?

In her last entry in her blog Generation Y. Yoani responded in this manner,
I don’t see the feathers on my tail but, if to be a very delicate hen I must accept that a group of septuagenarians—old men—decide every aspect of my life, then I’m inclined to transvestism and will cock-a-doodle-doo like the rooster with the most hormones in the barnyard. You go girl!!!

The demon spawn said also, "some friends wrote me to let me know that the young woman, has started a big ruckus in some blogs, dedicated to discrediting the Cuban Revolution". Hello! I hate to be the barer of bad news, but the Revolution is 50 years old and it was discredited a long time ago, without any help from us.

What does this "Rich Tramp" think she is? Does she think anyone believes she is interested in the equality of homosexuals? We all know too well, that the Cuban government has systematically spend decades trying to destroy them. The Cuban gay community has been marginalized, tortured, assassinated and imprisoned. All she is trying to do is get transgender patients to Cuba in order to make her father's regime richer and stronger.

The daughter of the second oldest Mummy in Cuba, should stick to what is, her area of work, being that she is so progressive and liberal-not exactly in between her ears.............and let the job of defending the right of the Cuban people to the "Insignificant", because she is not even worthy to stand in the same room with Yoani Sanchez!!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Bloggers Reunion in Havana Will go on as Planned


"We have decided that there won't be an inaugural ceremony, but, we have not renounced having the reunion of Bloggers on Saturday", said independent reporter Reinaldo Escobar.

The Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said this Thursday, that the intimidation from the government to halt the realization of the meeting of Bloggers, planned for this Saturday in Havana, is a sampling of the "fear" the authorities have of any "unauthorized reunion, that "escapes" their "control".

"The Cuban government is afraid of any gathering of people, who by their own initiative decide to get together to discuss a subject that is outside of "official control", whatever it may be", she told AFP, and and affirmed, that the strong police warning she received on Wenesday, will not make then cancel the encouter".........................

This was reported by Cubaencuentro

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Yoani at the Police Station

As I wrote last night, Yoani Sanchez, winner of the Best Weblog in the "The Bobs", for her Generation Y blog exposing the reality of life in Cuba, as well as numerous other awards, was summoned to a local police station in Havana where she resides with her Husband and son.

Yoani and her husband were interviewed by two members of the Ministry of the Interior (secret police), who refused to sign a formal statement-the bastards want no paper trail!

They read from a script.........

"We want to advise you that you have transgressed all the limits of tolerance, with your proximity to elements of the counterrevolution".

Referring to a scheduled meeting, that will bring together Cuban bloggers from inside and outside Cuba, they informed her that, "The activity planned in the next few days, can not be realized".

They went on to say, "On our part, we will take all measures and will make the pertinent reports and accusations necesary. This activity, with the moments this Nation is living, trying to recuperate from the hurracanes, will not be permited".

BASTARDS!!

Before they asked her to leave, she called them Cowards, for not signing the statement read to her. Wow......What guts!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Yoani Sanchez is in Danger!!


There is the possibility that Yoani Sanchez, the blogger who turned the eyes of the world to the real Cuba, could be in danger. To anyone reading this, please contact the newspapers, radio, TV, etc. Lets not leave her alone, now that she needs us!! I translated this as best as I could. She has been called in to a police station for questioning!

On her blog Generation Y, the blogger who won the best Weblog Award and Reporters Without Border in the "The Bobs" wrote tonight with the same humor and wit that characterizes her, but definitely worried :

First Round
by: Yoani Sanchez at Generación Y , December 2, 2008

I swear, that I have not ran a red light, that I have not bought cheese in the black market, in more then two months and I have not left a store without paying. I don't remember violati the laws -to much- these days. I have not even pretended to be a foreigner in order to use the Internet in some Hotel.

I have nevertheless, been called into the police station along with Reinaldo. We are to go down to the Police station on 21 and C in Vedado. I wonder if I should take my tooth brush or will I just receive a brief ear tug.

I leave you with the official document I received today from the hands of a sweaty official, that had to go up 14 flights of stairs -I've had no elevator for a month–.

Tomorrow at nine in the morning, I will know what it is about, wait for news after two.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Yoani Sanchez Wins Another Award!!!


Yoani Sanchez, the Cuban blogger, who for the past year, has connected us with what's happening inside Cuba, and is considered by FP En Espanol, one of the 10 most influential intellectuals of Iberoamerica, winner of the Ortega y Gasset 2008, and the jury award from Bitácoras.com 2008.

She is once again bestowed, with the award for best Weblog and Reportes Without Borders given by the jury for the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards "The Bobs".

The jury said, "Sanchez gives voice to an entire generation of Cubans and provides the world with a window into Cuba through her clear and poetic writing".

Additionally, she has been included among the 100 personalities selected this year by El País, a Spanish newspaper!

On her blog Generacion Y, Yoani writes,

"We still lack that which is the most coveted prize: the right to dialogue, dissent and to dye ourselves in the political colors of our choosing within our Island. We must not let this phenomenon be limited only to the blogosphere, we have to go in search of the jackpot: free opinion".

Yoani Sanchez has become the voice for the Cubans in the the Island. Lets hope that one day soon, her blog can be read inside Cuba. This award is a triumph, not only for our Yoani, but also for the Cuban dissidents and the exiles who desire freedom for Cuba.

This frail looking woman, who walks 14 flights of stairs to get to and from her apartment, in Havana, since the elevator broke, has been able to do what no one else before her has accomplished. Cuban Author, Jose Marti wrote, !A reported is much like soldier!. At this rate, she is going to topple the Cuban government with out firing a canon nor a rifle!

Congratulations Yoani!!