Speaking my mind
I am a little delusional. Until a minute before the Maria Moors Cabot prize ceremony – held yesterday – I thought the Cuban government would change its decision and let me leave. So I saved the recording I made at the Immigration Office on Monday, October 12. Today, seeing that I am in the same place, I have decided to publish it, thinking especially of all those who are going through the same experience.
Emotion – having so much to say – did make me speak at a velocity difficult to subtitle, but I feel the relief of having said directly to those military uniforms everything I think about them and their absurd restrictions.
Forgive the problems with the video, but it is a completely amateur recording, like everything in this blog.
English Transcript of Video
[Informational text] The office with all the requirements for travel. Bureau of Immigration and Foreigners for the municipality of Plaza, at 17th Street, between J and K, Vedado.
Yoani: Who is last in line for information?
Clerk: Yoani?
Yoani: Well, I need to know if you have lifted the ban on my traveling that has been in effect for a year.
[Informational text] From here the recording is audio only.
Clerk: You still cannot travel.
Yoani: Still? And when will you lift this prohibition.? Do you have an idea? I need to know.
Clerk: Prohibition?
Yoani: Well, not allowing me to get on a plane is a prohibition.
Clerk: You are still not authorized to travel.
Yoani: And for what reason?
Clerk: I do not know the reason.
Yoani: I have no pending legal case, I’m not being prosecuted before a court. Pay attention to this citizen. I’ve already come many times. You know me here. What I want to know is if this prohibition is unending. If I will one day be able to leave the country. If I continue trying. What do I have to do?
You know this is a violation of my constitutional rights. You people are violating my rights as a citizen, the ability to travel, to leave and enter my country. It is very serious. That a military institution denies a fundamental right of a civilian citizen, it is like the right to an education, to food, the right to travel.
Clerk: At this time you cannot travel.
Yoani: Yes, I have heard it already, I repeat. But what I want is to have the person who made the decision give me the answer to my face.
Clerk: I am giving it to you.
Yoani: No you are not giving me the answer, you are repeating to me the same thing it says in those papers. Why can’t Yoani Sanchez leave the country? Why are you so afraid of my being outside of Cuba?
Clerk: At this time you cannot travel.
Yoani: Why don’t you want me to put one foot on a plane? What are you afraid of? What can this 110 pound person do? Create a tsunami? Why then won’t you let me leave the country?
Clerk: I already told you…
Yoani: You are being ridiculous. But no, I don’t want to repeat. You are making a travesty of life. This institution, that you represent, this permission to leave, some day this is going to end. My grandchildren are not going to live under these conditions. When I tell them the story of how the institutions of my country violated my rights, my right to travel, they’re not going to believe me. What will you tell your children? That you dedicated yourself to violating the rights of Cubans? Is that what you’ll say? Because really, I feel sorry for you for what you are going to have to tell your children in the future.
Me, no. I’ve never violated the rights of anyone. I only want to exercise my right. And act like a free person. Why can’t I? Why? Why do you routinely deny me permission? Who is the person who makes the decision? Why don’t they stop being a coward and show their face? And say to me, “Yoani Sanchez, you are not traveling for one, two, three…” But no.
No, you are saying to me, “No.” You are not giving me an explanation, the why. I am not being prosecuted in court. I have no pending cases, I’ve never been a soldier. I don’t have State secrets. I’m not even a doctor, and you have prohibited medical personal from leaving for five years. They need to be freed. I am none of that. I am a person dedicated to letters. Why can’t I leave. Ah… I do know why I can’t leave, but I am waiting for you people to tell me. Because you have an ideological filter. This country is a huge prison, with an ideological boundary. And the citizens here are judged by political colors. Here there are first citizens, and second, and in the fifth category… I don’t know what category I’m in but I must be in the basement, no? Why? Because of an ideological filter.
But one day this will end. Because this Nation has nothing to do with ideology, or with a party. This nation existed before you and it will exist after you. And then you are going to have to give an accounting of all the violations you visited upon Cubans. In truth, I’m very sorry but the future does not belong to you. The future is ours. I am 34-years-old, I am going to live it, I am going to live it. I am going to be very happy when I can travel freely. And all you are doing is tightening the rubber band. When I can step foot outside this country, the consequences will be much greater because you made it happen. Every day more people read my blog, because you also have made that happen. More people are amazed and greet me in the street, because you have caused that. With your prohibitions and your authoritarianism and your police watching everything. The only thing you’ve done is to make what I do more attractive. So then, if I have to thank anyone I have to thank the organs of State Security, the Ministry of the Interior, and Immigration who have contributed to the phenomenon of my blog growing bigger and bigger. Really, thanks very much!
Noviembre 5th, 2009 at 18:09
yoani, i admire you for saying all you did to the “uniforms” & speaking for so many.
congratulations on your award. you will certainly be able to accept some, in person, one day in the future. i believe it.
Octubre 30th, 2009 at 16:58
Foi muito revoltante assitir este vĂdeo, pedir por explicações e somente ouvir a resposta que nĂŁo pode, sem nenhum outro argumento, sem motivo real. Acredito muito que as pessoas que lutam pelos seus direitos conseguem mover de alguma forma o mundo para o melhor, para o justo. Espero que vc tenha forças para nunca desistir pois hoje vc já Ă© daquelas pessoas que fazem a diferença, no meio de tanta injustiça, incompetĂŞncia, impunidade, ignorância que existe no mundo todo.
Octubre 26th, 2009 at 15:13
This is my latest entry on my Blog which celebrates the work of JosĂ© MartĂ: http://achatwithjosemarti.blogspot.com/
I want the world to know your act of bravery in the face of apathy. The scene is reminiscent of Kafka’s The Trial. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial for those of you who are not familiar with his work…though I am sure most of you are)
Octubre 26th, 2009 at 01:25
I have commented many times in this blog about the end of the Embargo. If lifting the Embargo would end or ease the food shortages in Cuba, I will be in favor, but lets be realistic, the only reason the Cuban dictatorship wants and end to the Embargo is that we start financing all of their needs and US Banks will open their gates with unsecured loan to a government that had never repaid their debts to other nations. Wake up people, there is no such thing as the Embargo, last year itself Cuba has bought over 7 millions of goods in cash.
Octubre 24th, 2009 at 23:05
First of all: Congratulations, again, Yoani, for your latest award. It is a pity that you could not receive your much-deserved praise in person. You are brave to say, to the face of bureaucratic obstructionism, exactly what you think. You are correct that every petty action that they take against you merely makes your stature, and blog readership, grow all the more. One day, they will be ashamed of themselves. Stay strong.
Octubre 24th, 2009 at 18:57
Yeaph… You’re right JUAN, the first most word for Cuab have to be FREEDOM!
Octubre 24th, 2009 at 18:39
que triste, como dijo Marti: el sol nos ilumina con la misma luz con que te quema, los agradecidos, ven y aman su luz;los mala agradecidos, solo ven sus manchas.
“sea parte de los que aman a cuba y luchen por hacerla mejor”
“La primera palabra para Cuba”
tisonxx
Octubre 24th, 2009 at 17:01
I never believe in God, but after seen what you have done in a couple seconds, resuming all cubans feelings for the last fifty odds years, I see now that it can be miracle, thank you! godspeed for you from an entire lost generation! Hope Make Change!.
Octubre 21st, 2009 at 23:21
NO MATTER WHAT THE CUBAN DICTATORSHIP HAS DONE TO YOU FOR SO MANY YEARS,
YOUR MIND AND THOUGHTS WILL BE ALWAYS FREE.GOD BLESS YOU”VIVA CUBA LIBRE”
Octubre 20th, 2009 at 17:39
LONG LIVE FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE…
FREE CUBA !!! VIVA CUBA LIBRE !!!
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 22:56
The system in Cuba is about to collapse.
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 19:29
#34 - Andy, this is just the first step to allowing legal travel for all Americans to Cuba. I believe this will happen someday in the near future. And for now, at least those with relatives can visit their loved ones more often than not. I think any easing of travel restrictions will benefit Cuba in the end. Personally speaking, I wish to visit my in-laws someday in the near future and would like to introduce them to their new granddaughter, which would have been impossible without Obama’s new policy. My husband is Cuban but defected as an athlete, and for fear of being arrested or such upon return to Cuba he cannot yet go back to visit his family.
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 18:21
Well, I’m sure I’m not the first to point out the obvious, but you’re living under totalitarian rule. If it’s not something the people of Cuba choose to live with, then why are they not rising up against the regime? Is life not as hard as one is led to believe? I certainly will never know, since I have no desire to ever set foot on Cuban soil, even though many of my fellow Canadians seem to think it’s OK to do so.
Oh, and you’d better start being a little more careful, or not only are they going to block access to your blog, but you’re going to disappear off the face of the earth.
You might want to think about that. While I realise the true history of your country has no doubt been kept hidden from it’s citizens, don’t fool yourself. There is no such thing as “due process”.
Be careful.
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 17:59
Yoanis:
Brave is not enough to classify your attitude!!!! you are a true Cuban woman!!!!! a real patriot!!!!!
You are a the new kind of “Mariana Grajales” under that cruel and sanguinary system.
Keep on doing like that,,,no more,,,no less,,,avoid any reason to allow them to use it against you to go to prison!!!
“A right idea, even, at the bottom of a cave, is more powerful than an army”,,,Jose MartĂ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God Bless you!!!!!!
Candido
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 12:53
#34 ANDY. The world is made of outragedness. I am Cuban, born and reared until I was 21 year old, now US Citizen and lived in USA longer than I lived in Cuba BUT I still need in order to to travel to Cuba a Cuban passport AND a Cuban Visa, both very VERY expensive. And I agree with you Re: the so-called- Embargo. Castro is the one who does not want free travel. He does not like that word; FREE.
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 12:43
Muchos de estos comentarios van dirigidos a Yoani pero recuerden que ella no tiene la posibilidad de leerlos ( otro ejemplo mas del teatro del absurdo el regimen de Castro)no tiene acceso. Recuerden lo que ella tiene que hacer para mandar su blog. Lo escribe en su casa en su laptop, lo pasa a un memory flash, se lanza a la calle a buscar un hotel o lugar que tenga internet, de donde ella misma ha dicho que la han botado por no ser extranjera, o la reconocen y no quieren problema. Cuando tiene acceso que es caro y pagar en cdc money entonces es que ella lanza el blog al la net.No se si los e mail directos los pueda leer, si les mandan muchos e mail ella tampoco puede usar el tiempo tan caro y escaso en leer tonterias.
Octubre 19th, 2009 at 05:42
Eres una mujer con timbales!!! Eres una mujer osea una persona que ya quisiera en Cuba otras personas tener los mismo Ovarios que tu tienes. Te saludo, Me quito el sombrero. Eres unica!!! Aunque estoy aqui en el otro lado , te apoyo y sigo contando le a todo el mundo de mi Cuban Hero que se llama Yoani Sanchez!!! Abajo La Dicatadura prehistoria de los Castros!!!
Octubre 18th, 2009 at 19:06
Way to go Yoani. Keep telling those beauracrats how stupid the state is for keeping you imprisoned on the island of Cuba. Everyone knows that Cuba is Fidel’s prison and until that bastard and his brother die off, everyone will continue to be a prisoner.
Octubre 18th, 2009 at 18:47
Muy querida y admirada Yoanis: Hoy me encontrĂ© con tu mensaje que trasciende por lo genuino, valiente, verdadero y ejemplar…sin tacha y sin miedo. Recibe un abrazo de una cubana que tambiĂ©n siente como tĂş, pero que siente tambiĂ©n que tanto aquĂ como allá la verdad se vea limitada y a veces utilizada para desvirtuar hechos.
Yo soy una admiradora de Juan Pablo II y lamento mucho que los cubanos no hayan prestado atenciĂłn a su mensaje corto y certero, “NO TENGAN MIEDO”, que dicho por un polaco con la historia y experience que traĂa de siglos atrás era, o mejor dicho es “UN CANTO DE LIBERTAD”… Te envĂo muchas bendiciones
Octubre 18th, 2009 at 04:27
Is there anyone who can send me a transcript in Spanish of the Amaury Pacheco Poem “Plan economico”? The NY Times provided a translation and I would like to do the same… but there are a few words I can’t make out.
You can post it here or email it to the desdecubaenglish –at– gmail.com address.
Here, by the way, is the NY Times translation, which you are welcome to comment on. They note that the language is “idiosyncratic” and “there could be differing translations.”
Economy! We have fulfilled the annual plan:
1,100 street hustlers; 2,000 young prostitutes; 8,000 opportunists.
Plus, 300 non-mentally disabled and the syndrome of mediocrity.
Economy! In times of a Havana that is unrecognizable,
By sweeping the house, you cleanse the economy.
Strong legs for the rocky path,
Legs that are only for the percentages of economic shame.
Shameful economy! Economy of shame! Economy of shame!
THANK YOU DEAR READERS!
YFET
Octubre 18th, 2009 at 00:15
This part on her speech is so good!
But one day this will end. Because this Nation has nothing to do with ideology, or with a party. This nation existed before you and it will exist after you. And then you are going to have to give an accounting of all the violations you visited upon Cubans.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 21:53
Yoani,
You are MORE POWERFUL when they say NO!THE HYPOCRACY/THRUTH IS REVEALED!
We should ALL post this on our Facebooks, Twitter and other online media!I do!
NY TIMES ARTICLE:Yoani Sánchez: Virtually Outspoken in Cuba
“Internet access is tightly limited in Cuba, and Ms. Sánchez has often had to play cat-and-mouse with the authorities to make her writings available, either inside Cuba or outside of it. And when the Cabot awards were announced, she was denied an exit visa to travel to New York to receive hers, a process she chronicled on her blog.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10.....ohter.html
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 21:11
Yoani, Te admiro y me haces llorar de tanta emociones y pasion que siemto por lo que estas haciendo. Te doy gracias a ti y a Dios por todo. Algun dia todos los cubanos vamos a ser libre.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 20:08
In fact, following the death of Jack Kennedy, his brother Robert stayed on as Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson, and he prepared a report suggesting that restricting the right of citizens to travel to Cuba was unconstitutional. In those cold war days, it was felt to be too much of a show of weakness, but I expect the ban will go eventually under Obama. Should stir the island up a bit!
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 19:38
Forget the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… as if the U.S. (my country) is not an entire universe unto itself (ok it’s getting better under Obama but we have a long way to go)… but how about the U.S. Constitution.
If someone can explain to me why a person whose grandmother was born in Cuba, or even someone who lives in a household with a person whose grandmother was born in Cuba while they themselves can be from Outer Slobovia… why THEY have the free right to travel to Cuba and **I** don’t?!?!??!?!?!… I’d like to hear it.
Are only Chinese-Americans and their descendants allowed to travel to China? Are only Vietnamese-Americans and their descendants allowed to travel to Vietnam?
THIS SO-CALLED “POLICY” IS INSANE.
As for the commercial embargo… waiting for reciprocity is playing RIGHT INTO FIDEL’S HANDS. Every time, over 50 years, we came close to ending the embargo he’d do something as outrageous as possible to make sure it didn’t happen. End it already. Call the old guy’s bluff while he’s still got the consciousness to be infuriated by it! In fact maybe he’d be so enraged he’d just burn himself out right over to the other side!!!!! What kind of poetic justice would that be?!!!!
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 18:27
Great finds Andy.
There is also the article about Obama that Yoani wrote back in June 2008 which is available on the left margin of her home page where she welcomes a Obama presidency revisiting the embargo and US travel restrictions. And there’s been other references if you go back through the archives.
I still think the US government should unilaterally lift all travel restrictions on US citizens visiting Cuba. Apart from violating Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it just plays into the hands of the regime who use it as a justification for maintaining travel bans on Cuban citizens.
And while I personally think that the commercial embargo has been counter-productive, lifting it unilaterally without any reciprocity from the Cuban side is just not going to happen. And I think Yoani knows this as well.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 18:16
Here are some quotes from Babalu Blog, which supports the embargo and hates Obama — and “loves” Yoani but hates her positions on the embargo and Obama:
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FROM BABALU BLOG
Yoani on Honduras
By Humberto Fontova, on July 29, 2009, at 6:08 pm
“Right now in Honduras a whole nation can wrap itself in the prickly coat of the soldiers or be mesmerized by the “triumphal” return—á la Chavez—of one who has been deposed by force. In this dilemma, the citizens rarely come out well.”….
Yoani Sanchez, btw, also backed Obama for U.S. Pres and supports the lifting of the “U.S. embargo” and any restrictions on “remittances.”…
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FROM BABALU BLOG
Yoani nails it!
By Henry Louis Gomez, on December 31, 2008, at 12:06 am
In her latest post, which Ziva re-published here earlier tonight, Yoani Sanchez concisely describes the problem of the Cuban economy.
“If we were to be consistent in eliminating paternalism, we’d need to start by reducing the burden of maintaining this obese state infrastructure that we feed from our own pockets. Workers who produce steel, nickel, rum or tobacco, or who are employed in the bar of a hotel, receive a minuscule portion of the sale of their production or of the real cost of their services. The rest goes directly to subsidize an insatiable State.”
Now I know I disagree with many of the Cuban dissidents who would like to see an end to the embargo (including Yoani), but this is exactly why I am in favor it.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 14:11
La simple explicacion es que no existe logica en como ese regimen opera. La estan castigando por tener “A BIG MOUTH”. No la cogen presa no se por que, no por famosa, o premiada con un Nobel aunque fuera, a ellos no les importa nada, le inventarian una penalidad y ya, a la reja, como le hicieron a Panfilo, al Doctor Darsi. esos HP. simplemente unos sadicos que saben Nadie puede hacer nada. defender los derechos ciudadanos de Yoa o nadie. Y la prensa extranjera, no hace ningun ruido, con sus ideas de izquierdas y simpatias por el regimen criminal de Castro
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 13:16
Good morning people…… I need your help in order to silence a big mouth that is accusing Yoani of being a supporter of the US embargo on Cuba and travel restriction on American citizens. I know Yoani has left very clear several times she believes the embargo and travel restrictions must be lifted but I can’t find a link. Please give me a little help………. Thanks
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 12:57
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English Translator re Comments on Huff Post
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Thousands Thank for the explanation. I never had in mind the moderation of Huff. had nothing to do with you. My only interest was to show this “strange” way of moderation. Actually my comment could pass but disguised and divided in 4 parts. I believe the moderation of this site does not want allow direct argumentation on certain selected commenter (?!) among them this Mr. McAuliff that seems to be a “fat fish” of the “International Division of Useful Dummies Working for a Happy and Healthy Castro Dictatorship”.
Thanks again
Sigmund = Carbo Servia
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 09:59
Yes, “brave like Yoani” would be a better inspiration for young Cubans than the Rosario psychopath. Somehow I can’t see her going in for the cult of personality. As for propaganda, I’ve just seen that:
Cuba’s Institute of Radio and Television is the new joint owner of multi-state TV network Telesur, according to the Venezuelan Official Gazette dated October 9. With the entry of Cuba as joint owner, the majority shareholder is the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela with 5,810,256 shares while Cuba owns 903,000 shares. The Official Gazette also reported that one of the members of the new board of directors of Telesur is Juan Carlos Ortega, son of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
So that’s something to look forward to!
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 06:58
Hola Sigmund and others who have tried to post comments on Huff Post. I also post Yoani’s blog there but I want you all to know that I do not moderate the comments, nor does Yoani. She doesn’t do it of course because she doesn’t have the access, and I have chosen not to do it because they require all comments to be moderated and I don’t have the time to be on the computer all day doing it, so people would get frustrated since none of the comments would get posted.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND their system for blocking comments… it seems to be almost random. They must have some bad computer algorithm that does it. I know many people (friends) who say they have been unable to post their comments… or one comment gets posted and the next does not. So there’s no rhyme or reason to it.
But I don’t want anyone to think that someone ‘officially’ associated with this blog is blocking comments on Huff Post.
Your Friendly English Translator
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 04:31
WOW! BRAVO!!!! You will go down in history as a Cuban hero, the person who had the guts to stand up for her rights, who had the guts that the person who keeps denying you the right to travel does not have. You have a dream, it will come true, you will live to see the day, while Satan and his followers burn hell. God Bless.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 04:25
Yoani, su coraje Ă©s admirable!
Casi todos los dĂas acompaño su blog y sus comentarios a respecto de la vida diária de los cubanos.
soy profesor de derecho constitucional y no puedo aceptar las violaciones de derecho que el pueblo cubano sofre diariamente sĂłlo para mantener la apariencia de un paradiso socialista!
Yo me envergüenzo de la hipocrisia con la qual el gobierno brasileño trata el sufrido pueblo de Cuba.
Yo me envergĂĽenzo con los pseudo intelectuales de la izquierda latinoamericana que ven los cubanos como animales en un zoo! “como pueden los cubanos desear huir del paradiso”? preguntan ellos…
Desafortunadamente, en Brasil los que apoyan el rĂ©gimen castrista afirman que la educaciĂłn y la medicina en Cuba son ejemplos para el resto de la AmĂ©rica Latina. A mĂ me gustaria mucho conocer la verdad a respecto de la educaciĂłn y de la salud de los cubanos, pues no puedo creer que un PaĂs con serios problemas economicos logre conducir una buena educaciĂłn.
No puedo acceptar que el gobierno brasileño mantenga relaciones polĂticas cercanas con los militares de la Isla, que trata sus propios ciudadanos como como seres de segunda clase - eso demuestra que la palabra democracia es vacĂa, pues puede ser empleada de varias formas, hasta mismo para denotar una dictadura pseudosocialista!
hace poco tiempo, el gobierno brasileño no permitiĂł que dos pugilistas cubanos quedaron acá y los entregaron a las autoridades de su paĂs, aunque nuestra constituciĂłn mencione el asilo polĂtico como una necesidad en las relaciones internacionales.
Al mismo tiempo,paradojalmente, el gobierno apoya Manuel Zelaya, con el discurso de que la democracia en América Latina está amenazada por un golpe de Estado.
Hay dos pesos y dos medidas! La dictadura Castrista amenazó y amenaza su propio pueblo hace 50 años!
Desde Brasil, por todo lo que veo y leo, siento que la democracia está más cerca del pueblo Cubano.
A Ud. sĂłlo puedo decir: coraje!
No olvide que su voz Ă©s escuchada por todo el mundo, y eso no Ă©s poco.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 04:01
The video shows Yoani to be a fearless and courageous woman.
I think the Cuban regime once again shot itself in the foot by denying Yoani permission to leave the country. In the last few days, the desdecuba.com website has achieved the highest ever readership I can recall as measured by the Alexa.com internet tracking service.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 03:43
I was trying to post in Huffington Post the following comment but the moderation did not allow me to post it as is but I had to split and mask it in several different comments:
Dear Mr. McAuliff, you are working for the “Fund for Reconciliation and Development”!!!!!
The only parts in dispute I know in Cuba are the tyranny in the red corner with a huge record of killing, incarcerating, harassing and destroying and in the opposite corner the Cuban people with Tens thousands dead, hundred thousands in jail and millions in exile……. Are you perhaps working to make the assassins, the harassers and the destroyer to pay for they horrible deeds?????
(This Mr. McAuliff is a personage that uses to present him self as president or founder of several “organizations” that “works” for “altruist” thing such as “Let’s make business with Cuba”, “Council of relationship development with Cuba”, etc.
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 01:28
Yoani, acabo de oir no solo la entrevista de immigracion pero la entrevista que tuviste con Oscar Haze. Eres una persona con una integridad inmejorable y muy valiente. Ojala los cubanos que estamos aqui hubieramos hecho lo que tu estas haciendo porque hoy Cuba seria un paiz libre. Te deseo lo mejor, aqui en Miami tienes una amiga y que Dios te bendiga a ti y tu familia por lo que estas haciendo. Cada granito de arena se hara una montana y espero pronto podamos todos disfrutar de una Cuba libre, sin persecucion y felicidad!!
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 00:55
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Yoani’s photo as a young schoolgirl shows a happy person with faith in a good future. Her photos as a 34 year old woman show an unhappy and bitter woman who has been betrayed by her country.
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Yoani’s talk with the official sounds like the beginning of the American Declaration of Independence. Revolution will come soon. Long live the brave Cubans as they fight for their freedom.
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El retrato de Yoani cuando fue una estudiente joven ensena una persona feliz con fe en una buena futura. Sus photos ahora que tiene 34 anos ensenan una mujer infeliz y amarga quien ha sido tracionado por su pais.
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La platica de Yoani con el official suena como el empieso de la Declaracion de Independencia Americana. Ya viene la revolucion. Viva los valientes Cubanos en su lucha por su libertad.
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John Bibb
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Octubre 17th, 2009 at 00:15
Suena como una paradoja que los llamados “ideĂłlogos” le temen tanto a las ideas. te temen como le temen a las masas. The has convertido en una de sus peores pesadillas, y te alabo por eso.
Tienes razĂłn Yoani, eso no va a ser eterno, tiene que caer, y va a caer.
Que Dios te bendiga y te proteja, a tu familia y a nuestro pueblo.
¡¡¡VIVA CUBA LIBRE!!!
Octubre 17th, 2009 at 00:04
Sounds like a paradox that the so-called “ideologists” are so afraid of ideas, they fear you as they fear the masses. You’ve turn yourself into one of their worst nightmares, and I praise you for that.
You’re right Yoani, that will not be eternal, it has to fall, and it will fall.
May god bless you and protect you, your family and our people.
¡¡¡VIVA CUBA LIBRE!!!
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 22:44
Cuba needs more people saying what you are saying. You speak the truth ans they fear the truth…that’s why you are not allowed to leave the prison island.
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 22:08
well done -
enhorabuena! de verdad le has cantado las cuarenta (si he dicho bien…- mi espanol no es tanto fuerte pero tu eres uno de los razones que yo aprendo esta lenguaje
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 20:32
Congratulations, Cuba need more people like you, I feel happy for your condition of Cubans
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 17:43
I have goose bumps listening to this woman with such courage! Yoani, you are a revolutionary indeed!
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 17:17
Balserocubano,
Yo anadaba por alla y de pronto no solo que no podia enviar mi comentario sino que cuando entre por primera vez habia alrededor de 800 y ahora solo aparecen 5.
esto huele mal, estaban comentando un monton de gente que no lo habian hecho antes felicitando a Yoani, nada que habia euforia en el ambiente y de pronto puaff!
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 17:09
Hi Yoani,
For some reason The Blog in Spanish is blocked and link appears to be broken. There were more than 800 commentaries that vanished !!!
Nada flaca que te tienen panico. Mis Felicitaciones y admiracion.
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 16:51
The spanish version of this blog has been blocked. At least I haven’t been able to open it in my computer. I am very worried for her. Some one can do something about it? someone can make this post to be publish in any newspaper?
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 16:18
We need more people like you who are not afraid to stand-up for what they believe is right. Keep up the great work you do and continue to expose the Cuban government for what they are, murderers, thieves, human rights violators, repression, etc. And you are correct; what they don’t understand is that Cuba existed before them and will after them. Cuba Libre !!
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 15:23
Dear Yoani!
I know what totalitarianism is. I know what courage it takes to behave like you do. i admire you so much!
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 14:42
usted es valiente, yoani
¿usted dice qué miles (millones?) quieren decir en Cuba
esto serĂa la cosa más asombrosa para usted para sentarse para una tarde con el hermano de su presidente, y tener una discusiĂłn sobre lo que la vida y la opresiĂłn eran para Ă©l hace 50 años, y lo que es para usted hoy
Âżcuál es la posibilidad podrĂa pasar alguna vez?
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 14:40
you are brave, yoani
you say what thousands (millions?) want to say in cuba
wouldn’t it be the most amazing thing for you to sit down for an afternoon with your president’s brother, and have a discussion about what it was like for him 50 years ago, and what it is like for you today
what is the possibility it could ever happen?
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 13:47
Yoani has no ovaries. She has a pair of BIG BALLS.
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 09:34
I will appreciate very much information about how to add an avatar to my posts. Thanks in advance.
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 06:12
So happy to see your articles on The Huffington Post!!! And you are twittering!!!
I see you have the “pio,pio” addiction!!! jajaja. Keep up the good work! I tell everyone about you & your great blog. Everyone does know you & you are the future!
Margarita Teresa Gonzalez-Newcomer
West Palm Beach
follow me on twitter: margaritateresa ;)
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 04:07
que valentia,que coraje.la verdad es muy fuerte.
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 03:02
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Octubre 16th, 2009 at 02:59
Wow!!! Yoani, there is nothing to add. I’m spell bound by your lucidity in trying to project sense before a system run by an immoral and illegitimate dynasty.
I have goose bumps.
Keep up the good work.
Español:
Yoani, fuiste estupenda al tratar de explicarle a la burocrata de esa dinastia inmoral e ilegitima, cuales son tus derechos.
Estoy erizado despues de oir y ver lo que hiciste.
Manten tu fe y todo se te dara tarde o temprano.
Octubre 16th, 2009 at 01:10
Beautiful Yoani!
Freedom will one day come back to Cuba for all!
It will come back because of people with a lot of courage like you
If we only had more like you!
We would not need then more permissions to get out or to enter your own country.
You are the revolutionary
they are the counter revolutionary and the reactionary supporting a totally corrupt regime.