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Cubans go to unusual lengths to post blogs
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Oct 10, 2007 10:04am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 9, 2007 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When 32-year-old Yoani Sanchez wants to update her blog about daily life in Cuba, she dresses like a tourist and strides confidently into a Havana hotel, greeting the staff in German.
That is because Cubans like Sanchez are not authorized to use hotel Internet connections, which are reserved for foreigners.
In a recent posting on "Generacion Y" (www.desdecuba.com/generaciony) Sanchez wrote about the abundance of police patrolling the streets of Havana, checking documents and searching bags for black-market merchandise.
She and a handful of other independent bloggers are opening up a crack in the government's tight control over media and information to give the rest of the world a glimpse of life in a one-party, Communist state.
"We are taking advantage of an unregulated area. They can't control cyberspace out there," she said. |
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