I do know that it can have repercussions.īecause there’s that dilemma that someday they can call me and I can say look you are taking the Internet from the State I have friends who that has happened to.

state-run media.īut as relations between Washington and Havana thaw - the question is just how much criticism the government will tolerate.

Moderate bloggers like Pérez are trying to stake out a middle ground between the opinions of dissident writers. I think the term revolutionary in cuba // many people have taken it as an umbrella term for something that says yes to everything that the government says and does.Īnd when there has been an economic crisis for half a century, when the things that have happened here in cuba. to publish his blog, he relies on internet access provided through his government ministry job. He thinks of himself as a critic from within the revolution. It needs that combativeness that is not in the official media.Ĭ-Y I don’t criticize to knock down the system, to the contrary, I criticize to perfect the system. I believe that the new Cuba is assuming even that the criticism is necessary.Ĭuba needs a journalism of criticism. It was a scoop that would have been unthinkable in Cuba a few years ago. wrote a post alerting that the tests were out in the streets andĬ-R // And then, well, finally, I publish the the pictures of the tests that I had on the internet. Recently Carlos Alberto Perez broke a big story about widespread cheating on university exams. A lot of concerns, above all in a country like Cuba, right? Remarkably in an authoritarian police state, the on-the-ground journalism these bloggers are doing has become a force for change.Īs a young Cuban, I always had a lot of concerns, right? I used to have and will have. I see something that is wrong, I take a picture of it, and I reflect on it. We’ve decided to make blogs and take to that blog the cuba that we see, live, feel and suffer. you can not believe that neither.Īnd this blogosphere is made by a lot of young people that have critical points of view but they’re not like, they’re not against the government or they’re not against anybody. And there’s another extreme in cuba that says everybody, everything is good. Yoani Sanchez is an extreme that says everybody is bad. But many Cuban bloggers are taking a more moderate stance. These days, Sánchez has plenty of company in Cuba’s blogosphere.Dozens of writers showed up for a recent meetup in Havana. There is a new group of bloggers here in cuba that are more moderate I think. One of the biggest pillars that has served as a base (foundation) to control Cuban society, has exactly been the lack of information or the manipulation of information. Yes, I know it sounds a bit contradictory to make digital media in a country, which is one of the countries most disconnected from internet in the entire planet. And even they can’t read Sanchez’s website. In Cuba, only a small percentage of the population has access to the internet. They never foresaw that on April 9th when I left this house with a memory flash, heading to the only cyber café in La Havana, I was going to create a blog. Somehow I snuck out through a tiny hole, and they never saw me get there. Yoani Sanchez runs Cuba’s first independent news site.As an unflinching dissident voice.she has been at odds with the Cuban government since 2007.when she became one of the country’s first bloggers. The use of words has always been a corrosive agent on systems of this nature. How much freedom will their government give them? Transcript Cuban Bloggers Find Their Voice Cuba’s bloggers have staked out a middle ground between the hard-line criticism of dissidents and the propaganda of state-run media.

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