Censorship
Blogging a Revolution from Cuba Logan Payne | May 21, 2013 Imagine a world where you couldn’t get on the Internet, where you couldn’t access Facebook from your iPhone. Tweets, what are that? A Google search? A Yelp review? Fiction writer, photographer, journalist and revolutionary Cuban blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, also known simply as [...] Continue reading
Internet Censorship in Cuba Backfires May 16, 2013 Fernando Ravsberg HAVANA TIMES — Young Cuba (La Joven Cuba, LJC) has returned to the blogosphere after tearing down the barriers that denied it access to the Internet. We had a feeling this would happen when we saw the authors of this blog from the province of [...] Continue reading
The Sound of Silence / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Posted on May 11, 2013 Miguel Diaz-Canel criticized the information silence imposed on us by the authorities and called it an “impossible dream” to maintain it due to the circulation of news that circulated among people who surf the internet or who have email, and the avidity [...] Continue reading
Cuba’s Democratic Left on State Socialism May 9, 2013 | | Print Print | 0 5 11 32 HAVANA TIMES — A couple weeks ago we published a summary of an essay by Pedro Campos and Armando Chaguaceda on the inability of the State Socialist system that reigns in Cuba to carry out the changes [...] Continue reading
Cuban journalists exposing injustice merit more attention Sujatha Fernandes 12:38 PM on 05/06/2013 Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez recently completed a multi-city tour of the United States, speaking at major universities and even visiting the White House. Sánchez, who became internationally celebrated through her Generación Y blog, which won her a place on the Time [...] Continue reading
Forbidden Voices’: Female bloggers fight for freedom of speech By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN May 3, 2013 — Updated 1303 GMT (2103 HKT) Video link: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/05/03/pkg-shubert-forbidden-voices.cnn.html – “Forbidden Voices” follows lives of female dissident bloggers around world – Female dissident bloggers often suffer violence, detainment by repressive regimes – Film follows Iran’s Farnaz Seifi, Cuba’s Yoani [...] Continue reading
Cuba Dissident Blogger Yoani Sanchez Confronted by Italian Pro-Castro Fanatics By Gianluca Mezzofiore: Subscribe to Gianluca’s RSS feed April 28, 2013 9:59 PM GMT Cuba dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has been confronted by pro-Castro fanatics at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia A group of around twenty demonstrators accused Sanchez of being pro-American, shouting “Yes [...] Continue reading
A Dreamed of, Possible and Future Cuba, Laboratorio Casa Cuba Proposal / Catholic Archdiocese of Havana Posted on April 8, 2013 Site manager's note: This document/proposal, published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Havana, is generating discussion among the bloggers and is posted here for the convenience of our readers. The following translation is taken from [...] Continue reading
Posted on Saturday, 04.06.13 Blogger Yoani Sánchez gets by with a lot of help from her friends By MIMI WHITEFIELD And ANDRES VIGLUCCI aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com For more than six weeks, dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has crisscrossed the Atlantic, making a splash and garnering accolades as she hopscotches between high-profile events in Brasilia and Amsterdam, Mexico [...] Continue reading
Facebook blocked in North Korea, Iran, Cuba and 'another country,' says state media Amy Li If you have blocked Facebook, then at least have the guts to admit it. Apparently this doesn't work for China's censors, who, of course, have also said on numerous occasions that there is no internet censorship in China. This might [...] Continue reading
Yoani Sanchez, Cuban Blogger, Plans Independent Newspaper Online Posted: 03/15/2013 6:06 pm EDT | Updated: 03/18/2013 3:11 pm EDT Yoani Sanchez Newspaper Communist Cuba may soon see a non-government newspaper produced on the island. Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said she plans to launch an independent digital newspaper this year, and may follow with a paper [...] Continue reading
Proposals for a Possible Cuba March 18, 2013 HAVANA TIMES — A group of Cuban researchers have just released a document containing a list of 23 proposals "for our immediate future." While the Cuban economy remains in crisis and with the death of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the consideration of measures that can inject new [...] Continue reading
