People like Yoani are creating a new kind of Revolution. A vocal Revolution based on freely expressing their opinions and demanding the basic human rights every citizen deserves. These people are bold, ballsy, and sacrificing what little regulated rights they have in order to fight the system and have their voices heard by the blogging community (and hopefully beyond that) all over the world.
Yoani has been denied permission to travel outside of Cuba 3 times, and the regime simply can't give her a good reason why. Well... we all know why, and I think Yoani knows as well. But that doesn't stop her. That doesn't take away her desire to dream about the possibility of one day being able to express her opinions freely without having to worry that she will be punished for it by having whatever little privileges, if you can call them that, taken away from her. One of them being travel, another one the right to publicly assemble in a group situation which was denied when she tried to organize a sort of bloger's convention. I don't know if they were able to finally carry out this event or not, but I do know she was visited by government officials whose sole intent was to prevent her from achieving her purpose.
Your support and encouragement is one of the few things they can feed on. We can serve as a sounding board and much more. They are crying out for help, but most of all they are dying to connect with the outside world. It's like "message in a bottle". Let's let them know their message has reached our shores.
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Hi Jen! I just wanted to thank you on behalf of all Cubans inside and outside of Cuba for your support.
The people inside Cuba depend on us to make their voices heard. Things are getting really difficult for them. There is information that the authorities are removing satellites in the the middle of the night. It's going to get worse!
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