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Funcionarios del gobierno cubano acaban de negarle —por tercera vez— el permiso de viaje a Yoani Sánchez.
Police harrassing Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL/ WORLD
As Cuba approaches the 50th anniversary of its revolution this New Year's Day, the island's Communist government appears to be taking a harder line against a budding group of Cuban Internet bloggers pushing for greater freedoms.
On Thursday, Cuban blogger Claudia Cadelo, was summoned to appear at the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of domestic security. A day earlier, Yoani Sanchez, the nation's most prominent blogger, was told by authorities that her activities had "crossed the limits of tolerance," and was told she couldn't hold a planned meeting this Saturday of local bloggers, according to Ms. Sanchez.
Ms. Sanchez, who writes a blog called "Generation Y," is at the forefront of a small group of bloggers in Cuba who chronicle life on the island and occasionally vent against its government, which was run for the past 49 years by Fidel Castro until he stepped aside earlier this year for health reasons and handed power to his brother Raúl. Ms. Sanchez was the subject of a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal in December, 2007. The 33-year-old wife and mother has won several awards recently for her work, and was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people this year.
After the meeting, Ms. Sanchez reported on her blog that she was told the following: "We want to warn you that you have crossed the limits of tolerance with your closeness and contact with counter-revolutionary elements. The activity that you were pursuing for the next few days will not take place."
Cuba routinely jails writers and others it deems are acting against national interests. But Cuba's government hasn't jailed any bloggers. So few Cubans have Internet access that the bloggers are more widely read abroad than at home.
That could change at any time, however. A new government decree, published this week online, said that Internet service providers must "prevent access to sites where the content is contrary to the social interest, morals or good customs; as well as the use of applications that affect the integrity or security of the State."
Ms. Sanchez, who couldn't be reached on Thursday for comment, was organizing a reunion of local bloggers this weekend to discuss themes like technical aspects of blogging, according to Ernesto Hernandez, who edits a Barcelona-based blog called "Penultimos Dias," or "Penultimate Days." Ms. Sanchez was also planning to announce the creation of a new contest for Cuban bloggers, judged by an independent panel, he said. Top prize was one of two laptops that Ms. Sanchez recently won.
"Now, everything is on stand-by," Mr. Hernandez said in an email message.
A government spokesman said he had "no information" about contact between bloggers and government officials.
Profile:Yoani Sánchez, born in Havana, 1975.I studied for two years in the Instituto Pedagógico with a major in Spanish Literature. In 1995, I transferred to the Faculty of Arts and Letters – and had my son in August of that year – and finished after five years with a major in Hispanic Philology. My speciality was contemporary Latin American literature and I argued an incendiary thesis titled, “Words under pressure. A study of the literature of dictatorship in Latin America.” By the end of my university studies I understood two things: the first, that the world of intellectualism and high culture disgusted me and the saddest, that I no longer wanted to be a philologist.In September 2000 I went to work in a dark office for Editorial Gente Nueva* while arriving at the conviction – along with the majority of Cubans – that with a salary earned legally I could not support my family. So, without concluding my social service, I asked to be let go and dedicated myself to the better-paid labor of a freelance Spanish instructor for various German tourists visiting Havana. It was a time (continuing to today) when engineers preferred to drive taxis, teachers worked as hotel desk clerks and store counters were tended by neurosurgeons or nuclear physicists. In 2002, the disillusionment and economic suffocation led me to emigrate to Switzerland, from where I returned – for family reasons and against the advice of friends and acquaintances – in the summer of 2004.In these years I discovered the profession that I continue today: information technology. I realized that binary code was more transparent than carefully researched intellectualism, and if I never felt that great about Latin, at least I could string together long chains of HTML language. In 2004 I founded, together with a group of Cubans – all based on the Island – a magazine of reflection and debate, Consenso [Consensus]. Three years later, I continue working as web master, contributor and editor of the portal Desde Cuba [From Cuba].In April 2007, I got entangled in this adventure to have a Blog called “Generation Y” that I have defined as “an exercise in cowardice” because it allows me to say, in this space, what is forbidden to me in my civic action.I live in Havana with the journalist Reinaldo Escobar with whom I have shared my life for fifteen years. I have committed to stay, and every day I am more of a computer expert and less of a philologist.
Yoani Sánchez La Habana, 1975Estudié durante dos cursos en el Instituto Pedagógico la especialidad de Español-Literatura. En el año 1995, me trasladé a la Facultad de Artes y Letras – con un hijo nacido en agosto de ese mismo año- y terminé, después de cinco cursos, la especialidad de Filología Hispánica. Me especialicé en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea y discutí una incendiaria tesis titulada “Palabras bajo presión. Un estudio sobre la literatura de la dictadura en Latinoamérica”. Al terminar la universidad había comprendido dos cosas: la primera, que el mundo de la intelectualidad y la alta cultura me repugnaba y la más dolorosa, que ya no quería ser filóloga.En septiembre del 2000 me fui trabajar a una oscura oficina de la Editorial Gente Nueva, mientras arribaba al convencimiento –compartido por la mayoría de los cubanos- de que con el salario ganado legalmente no podría mantener a mi familia. De manera que, sin concluir mi servicio social, pedí la baja y me dediqué a la mejor remunerada labor de profesora de español –freelance- para algunos turistas alemanes que visitaban La Habana. Era la etapa (prolongada hasta el día de hoy) en que los ingenieros preferían manejar un taxi, los maestros hacían hasta lo imposible por trabajar en la carpeta de un hotel y en los mostradores de las tiendas te podía atender una neurocirujana o un físico nuclear. En el 2002 el desencanto y la asfixia económica me llevaron a la emigración en Suiza, de donde regresé –por motivos familiares y contra la opinión de amigos y conocidos- en el verano del 2004.En esos años descubrí la profesión que me acompaña hasta hoy: la informática. Me di cuenta que el código binario era más transparente que la rebuscada intelectualidad y que si nunca se me había dado bien el latín al menos podría probar con las largas cadenas del lenguaje html. En el 2004 fundé junto a un grupo de cubanos –todos radicados en la Isla- la revista de reflexión y debate Consenso. Tres años después sigo trabajando como web master, articulista y editora del portal Desde Cuba.En abril de 2007 me enredé en la aventura de tener un Blog llamado “Generación Y” que he definido como “un ejercicio de cobardía” pues me permite decir en este espacio lo que me está vedado en mi accionar cívico.Vivo en La Habana, junto al periodista Reinaldo Escobar –con quien comparto mi vida desde hace quince años-. He apostado por quedarme y cada día soy más informática y menos filóloga.
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Cuba impide salir del país a la ganadora del Ortega y Gasset de medios digitales Actualizado miércoles 07/05/2008 13:15 (CET)
EFE/ El Mundo LA HABANA.- La bloguera cubana Yoani Sánchez ha asegurado que las autoridades de Cuba no le han dado el permiso para salir del país y que por tanto no podrá asistir a la ceremonia de entrega del premio Ortega y Gasset en Madrid.
"Me dijeron lo mismo que estos días: no hay respuesta a tu caso", ha señalado Sánchez, quien tenía hasta hoy para obtener el permiso de salida y asistir a la ceremonia en la que se le debía entregar el premio Ortega y Gasset 2008 en la categoría de medios digitales.
Sánchez, autora del blog cubano 'Generación Y', ha explicado que al preguntar a las autoridades migratorias cubanas si existía la posibilidad de que en el curso de la jornada le dieran el permiso, le dijeron: "Hoy no será".
"La misma respuesta críptica de siempre: 'No hay respuesta para su caso'. Me recomiendan que cancele el vuelo porque me han dicho: 'Hoy no vas a viajar'", ha precisado.
"He cambiado el pasaje para un día cualquiera de junio", agregó la bloguera de 32 años, que recibirá el premio a través de una persona que la representará en la ceremonia. Según ha dicho, comenzó a tramitar el permiso de salida el pasado 7 de abril, tres días después de conocer que había sido premiada. Presentó todos los documentos exigidos y el pasado día 21 había realizado una entrevista ante las autoridades competentes.
"El 21 de abril tuve la entrevista, que para casos normales, en una semana responden", ha destacado al recordar que llegar a este estado del proceso implica que las autoridades "reconocen que has entregado todos los papeles correctamente".
Sánchez, licenciada en filología hispánica, abrió en abril del año pasado el blog 'Generación Y', en el que puso su fotografía, su nombre y su apellido, y en el que critica cosas de su país que, según dice, no le gustan.
 
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