The Christian Science Monitor has recently published a series of stories on Cuba's disgruntled youth, women dissidents, blogger Yoani Sánchez and the independent library movement. To read the series, click on this story.
Through his biting lyrics, Bian Rodríguez vents the anger he says other young Cubans also feel at being trapped in a system that doesn't represent them, won't allow them to speak freely, and – worst of all – stifles their ability to get ahead. Click here for full story
Only a handful of Cuban dissidents are willing to take on the risk of fighting for basic freedoms. While these spirited few – many of whom are now women – don't wield much clout, they insist that more people are quietly asking them how to get involved.Click here for full story
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez won the Spanish equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, but her government did not allow her to leave the country to receive it.Click here for full story
A government critic's collection includes Bibles, books by Cuban defectors, and positive biographies about Fidel Castro. His collection of movies, mostly documentaries about Cuban human rights violations or nonviolent reformers such as Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr., was taken away by security agents.Click here for full story
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The series in the Christian Science Monitor was most informative and I recommend it highly to everyone who wants to be informed about Cuba today.
Yoani Sanchez is a remarkable and interesting young woman.
Having lived abroad in Switzerland, she returned freely and of her own volition, to the island. Cubans living in the United States don't have the freedom which Ms. Sanchez had: to travel to Cuba and to be able to live there.
In Cuba, Ms. Sanchez, using her own name and photograph, publishes her criticisms of life on the island, illustrated by nice photographs, has them translated into several languages, and, so far, hasn't been bothered by the Cuban government for doing so.
Yes, she reports that she couldn't get a passport to go to Spain to pick up her Ortega y Gassett prize and the thousands of dollars which accompany the prize. But since there are no restrictions on Spanish citizens sending money to Cuba, perhaps the money was able to get to Ms Sanchez anyway?
She chose voluntarily to return to Cuba, knowing that she would be subject to Cuban law and to the decisions of the Cuban government.
Her complaints about not being able to travel where she wants are understandable. Here in the United States, most of us aren't free to travel to where we want, if where we want to travel is to Cuba.
Yes, I understand that two wrongs don't make one right, but people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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