The New Centrist (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Last Friday, November 13, Cuban bloggers Yoani Sanchez and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo were on their way to a march in downtown Havana when they were forced into an unmarked car by plainclothes police agents and beaten up. Juan O. Tamayo of the Miami Herald notes: Blogger Claudia Cadelo and another woman were detained in [...]
Cuba (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... day exercises will ring in National Defense Day on November 29 . I am reminded of a Cuban blogger Claudia Cadelo’s post of February 2009 about posters that adorn restaurants and cafes in Havana, advising Cubans (among other things) that “causing the greatest possible number of casualties on the active enemy forces is our main goal.” As Claudia responded: “[The militaristic...
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... which it “strongly deplore[d] the assault on bloggers Yoani Sanchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, and Claudia Cadelo.” Taking the Cuban government over its knee once again, it delivered a lecture about repression and violence, freedom and reconciliation. There are multiple problems with the State Department’s touching level of concern, though. First, there’s no independent...
Index on Censorship (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... also seized, and has posted images of the damage to his neck on his blog . Another Cuban blogger, Claudia Cadelo, is reported to have been picked up by a police car at the same time. The two bloggers were walking to Calle 23 and Avenue G where up to one hundred demonstrators were calling for an end to violence against anyone expressing dissenting views on the island, now ruled by...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In the aftermath of her seizure by state authorities, Generation Y admonishes those who may be adopting a “blame the victim stance, while Claudia Cadelo says she prefers being a victim to being the executioner. Havana Times, meanwhile, posts a piece about the march against violence on the way to which Yoani and the [...]
Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Good on Obama and Hillary ! We have expressed to the Cuban government our deep concern with the assaults, and we are following up with inquiries to Yoani Sanchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, and Claudia Cadelo regarding their personal well-being and access to medical care.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... enthusiastically supported this pack of hounds' outrage and for their part drove the blogger Claudia Cadelo and Orlando Luis's girlfriend away in a patrol car and left them on a corner of the Nuevo Vedado neighborhood as well. Yoani, along with writer Orlando Luis Pardo, was literally kidnapped from the very central Avenue G, in Vedado, beaten and pinned down before the astonished...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... the best-known Cuban blogger on the island and off, said she and bloggers Pardo and Claudia Cadelo and a woman friend were walking to join a ``march against violence'' organized by several young musicians when they were intercepted by three men in civilian clothes. Cuba's state security service agents frequently operate out of uniform. "We were almost there when we were intercepted...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
MIAMI HERALD : Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to participate in a peaceful march in downtown Havana. Sánchez, the best-known Cuban blogger on the island and off, said she and bloggers Pardo and Claudia Cadelo and a woman friend were walking to join...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... with another blogger and government critic, Orlando Luis Pardo. A third cyberspace personality, Claudia Cadelo, was picked up by a police car around the same time.The U.S. State Department said it "strongly deplores the assault" on all three.Word of the demonstration was spread by an anonymous text messenger, who is now disseminating word of Escobar's duel to the cellular phones of...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... with another blogger and government critic, Orlando Luis Pardo. A third cyberspace personality, Claudia Cadelo, was picked up by a police car around the same time.
The U.S. State Department said it "strongly deplores the assault" on all three.
Word of the demonstration was spread by an anonymous text messenger, who is now disseminating word of Escobar's duel to the cellular...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... with another blogger and government critic, Orlando Luis Pardo. A third cyberspace personality, Claudia Cadelo, was picked up by a police car around the same time.The U.S. State Department said it "strongly deplores the assault" on all three.Word of the demonstration was spread by an anonymous text messenger, who is now disseminating word of Escobar's duel to the cellular phones of...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... with another blogger and government critic, Orlando Luis Pardo. A third cyberspace personality, Claudia Cadelo, was picked up by a police car around the same time.The U.S. State Department said it "strongly deplores the assault" on all three.Word of the demonstration was spread by an anonymous text messenger, who is now disseminating word of Escobar's duel to the cellular phones of...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Senators Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg have joined a bi-partisan effort to condemn the self-reported attack of an anti-communist blogger in Cuba. Ironically, the blogger, Yoani Sanchez, says she and fellow bloggers Claudia Cadelo and Orlando Lu's Pardo Lazo were walking to an anti-violence demonstration on Friday in Havana when they say they were briefly detained, and beaten by what...
Fausta's blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Via Babalu, La Seguridad de Estado detiene a Yoani Sánchez y otros blogueros cuando iban a participar en una manifestación-performance en la calle 23 Babalu translates, Penultimos Dias has word that Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers have been arrested in Havana. Yoani Sánchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, Ciro Díaz and Claudia Cadelo among those arrested. Later...
