Cuban freedom bloggers
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Pajamas Media has a great story about the rise of anti-regime bloggers in Cuba.
A few months before Yoani blogged her first post, Cuba’s communications czar, Ramiro Valdés, told an audience “the wild colt of the new technologies could and must be controlled.”
But such pronouncements by Cuba’s totalitarian leadership did not deter Yoani Sánchez. Today she is arguably the most well-known critic of the Castro regime, with well over 1 million visitors to her blog, Generación Y, each month.
It’s great to see blogs play an important role in getting out information to an oppressed people. Try as they might, the communist thugs in Havana won’t be able to stop the flow of information via the internet. The nexus of freedom and technology is too powerful to suppress.
