Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yoaní Sánchez , Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo . Bloggers express their views concerning the incident . Yoaní has written [es] about the incident...
Venezuela News And Views (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saturday is my "low on news" mental hygiene day. But a brief scanning through Juan Cristobal at CC I learn with great horror that Yoani Sanchez, the most famous dissident blogger of Cuba, has been beaten up by goons; from the Cuban government it is extremely easy to guess. She tells her harrowing experience in Spanish here . When for Venezuelan bloggers to go through a similar experience?...
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yoani Sánchez says the police beat her while she was on they way to a march for nonviolence.
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban blogger who blogs about Castro's island hellhole from inside Cuba, using her own name, has been beaten up by Castro's thugs for the first time. Yoani described it as "professional violence." It's never happened before.
A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez describes a gangland-style kidnapping by Cuban government agents, in which she and some of her colleagues were severely beaten: The curious crowded around and I shouted, “Help, these men want to kidnap us,” but they stopped those who wanted to intervene with a shout that revealed the whole ideological background [...]
The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our Neighbor, Yoani Sanchez . . . Word comes in today via our local 6-degrees community network that Cuban state security agents yesterday attempted to forcibly abduct our neighbor across the straits, Blogger Yoani Sanchez; and that when they couldn't push her into their vehicle, they beat her up. "They warned her that her writings had gone too far." "too far" - whatever that means....
2 think good (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was beaten up by yesterday by thugs from the Cuban government. Hopefully, even bloggers outside of Miami will find reason to call attention to this latest abuse by the Cuban government. Thanks to friend of the blog Jose Garcia -- I swear that's his real name not some not some generic Hispanic name I used to hide someone's real identity -- and my favorite and ever-vigilant...
We The Free (Free subscription) | yesterday
clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación Y ) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue: Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban blogger who blogs about Castro's island hellhole from inside Cuba, using her own name, has been beaten up by Castro's thugs...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
SECRET police agents have abducted and beaten award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba.
IPE at UNC (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yoani Sanchez , a well-known Cuban blogger who runs Generation Y , a blog that has become a thorn in the side of the Cuban government, was detained and harassed by Cuban authorities yesterday in Havana. She relayed the experience on her blog this morning: Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers....
Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | yesterday
After all, they have such a benign government . Beloved, after all, of the political philosopher Sean Penn, and also by our great Pierre Elliot Trudeau in his time. Yoani Sanchez and blogging colleagues in Cuba are beaten and threatened. Why am I not surprised? Thugs, after all, behave thuggishly. UPDATE: Yoani reports on the experience . How am I going to tell him that we live in a country where this...
Caracas Chronicles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Juan Cristóbal says: - Courageous Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was briefly kidnapped from the streets of Havana by unidentified thugs and beaten. Her harrowing account is here, in Spanish .
Flares into Darkness (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yoani Sánchez, runs the blog Generation Y which is on our blog roll. If you haven't followed our link to her site and read her you should. She lives in Havana and gives a fascinating look at the everyday internals of the Worker's Paradise. Yesterday she and other dissident Cuban bloggers were detained by Cuban authorities and roughed up. From babalú (the comments in the thread are woth...
Marc Cooper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's the latest development from the First Free Territory in the Americas: Cuban security agents picked up prominent and dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez off the street and beat her when she resisted getting into the car. She was later released but is still barred from traveling outside of Cuba. Sanchez is guilty, of course, of what [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The detention, beating and subsequent release of bloggers Yoaní Sánchez, Claudia Cadelo and Orlando Luis Pardo by Cuban state security on November 6, is receiving widespread coverage in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere and twittersphere. Yoaní has written (es) about the incident on Generación Y, her blog, and English-language blogs like Babalú Blog, [...]...
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