Cuban blogger wins Spanish media prize
Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2008
A Cuban blogger who regularly criticizes the island's communist system
in her posts has won Spain's prestigious Ortega y Gasset journalism
prize in the digital category.
Yoani Sánchez, 32, uses Internet cafes in Havana to run her blog,
Generacion Y, named after the generation of 30-something Cubans whose
names begin with the letter Y as a result of the Soviet influence on the
island during the 1980s.
She recently complained that the government has blocked Cubans from
accessing her blog, but hinted that there are easy ways to get around
the restrictions.
The prize's jury on Friday highlighted ``the shrewdness with which her
work has dealt with the limitations on freedom that exist in Cuba, her
lively information style and the force with which she has incor****ated
into the global space of citizen journalism.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/484487.html
