Cuban blogger accused of ‘provocation’ against the country’s revolution

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Cuban authorities accused blogger Yoani Sanchez of ‘Generacion Y’, one of La Plaza’s linked blogs, of dissidence and ‘provocation against the Cuban Revolution’ after she publicly spoke against Cuban censorship during an arts performance in Havana, Reuters reports.

The Knight Center for Journalism’s ‘Journalism in the Americas’ blog reports that Sanchez spoke during an event in the Havana Biennial arts festival and read a manifesto stating that the Internet was creating a ‘crack’ in government control. She then added: ‘The time has come to jump over the wall of control.’

‘Since microphones are not abundant, I just took the opportunity,’ Sanchez wrote in her blog about the event.

Sanchez’s blog is critical of the Cuban government and widely read abroad, but her Cuban readership is limited because Internet access is restricted on the island.

Read more on Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City