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Yoani Sánchez
Yoani Sánchez is the "generation Y" blogger from Havana made famous through a relentless exile media campaign headed up by PRISA, the company that owns El Nuevo Herald in Miami and El País in Madrid. Avoiding the old and problematic model of paying dissidents directly, PRISA pays Yoani through openly given "literary prizes," an interesting innovation. Yoani is seen as avoiding the problems associated with the old style dissidents, whose funding came from under the table pipelines out of Miami. There appears to be some competition between her and some of the older dissidents. See Alberto Jones' The Paradox of Two Cuban Women: Irania Martinez and Yoani Sánchez, 11/26/09. Vease La paradoja de dos mujeres cubanas: Irania Martinez y Yoani Sanchez, 11/26/09 de Alberto Jones. Cuban journalists exposing injustice merit more attention 5/6/2013 MSNBC: by Sujatha Fernandes - "Much of the media coverage of [Yoani] Sánchez presents her as a lone critical voice in a climate where the Cuban state does not tolerate dissent and where—as Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos claimed in the Time magazine piece—journalists and others cannot practice freedom of speech. While it is true that there is censorship in Cuba, and journalism has always been under the supervision of the Communist Party-controlled Department of Revolutionary Orientation (DOR), there is a vigorous culture of criticism and internal debate in Cuba. But often, because many artists, journalists, and activists are not calling for the downfall of the government, they tend to go ignored or sidelined within western media coverage."
The Curious Case of Yoani Sanchez 3/20/2013 CounterPunch also discusses
funding issues.
Yoani and Racism The Ferguson Case and Its Possible Implications for Cuba 12/1/2014 World Post: "Anger grows slowly and one day explodes. The detonator can be a police officer in Ferguson who kills a young black man, or a man in Havana who is handcuffed and put in a squad car for the simple act of walking through a tourist facility with that skin tone that brings so many problems in so many places." Race and Identity / Yoani Sanchez 2/17/2014 Cuba Verdad: "Amid repeated institutional calls to end discrimination, the Cuban Civil Registry still maintains a racial category for every citizen. Along with the date of our birth, and our address, it specifies if we are white, mixed or black. The assignment of a “B,” “M” or “N,” (Blanco-white, Mestizo-mixed, Negro-black), in a nation with so much race mixing, is often the result of a functionary’s subjective judgement." Besides being the site for PARP, a "black civil rights organization" according to the Acting on Our Conscience briefing, Desde Cuba counts on its editorial board the AfroCuban dissident Dimas Castellanos. From her November 4, 2009 blog on racism entitled Cuestión de tonos:
FundingAn average monthly salary in Cuba is about $12 to $17.
Ortega
y Gasset Journalism Award, 2008 15,0000 euros Maria Moors Cabot prize, Columbia University, 2009 $5,000 Young Global Leader Honoree, World Economic Forum, 2009 unknown Heroes of the Hemisphere, Pan American Development Foundation, 2009 unknown PODER-ABC Business Awards, 2009 unknownRCS Media Group, Rizzoli: alleged to have paid her 50,000 euros
Si los blogs son terapéuticos ¿quién paga la terapia de Yoani Sánchez?, 8/25/09, CiberPrensa 1) ¿Cómo es que el Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos dio
la orden –cumplida en el acto- de desaparecer más de 80 sitios en
Internet relacionados con Cuba por “fomentar el comercio” y “violar
las leyes norteamericanas”, y no se ha enterado del trasiego de dinero a
través de Internet para el sitio de Yoani? Ya quisieran muchos periodistas que han quedado sin empleo “tener la habilidad” para emplear sus herramientas de administración y servicios, con gateway de pago o pasarela electrónica para el traspaso de dinero a través de tarjetas de crédito. Sin embargo, para que nadie se equivoque, tiene su Copyright © 2009 Generación Y – All Rights Reserved, algo que ningún bloguero cubano puede hacer tampoco desde la Isla. 2) ¿Quién hizo el soporte técnico del blog? ¿Quién se ocupa de mantenerlo? ¿Cuánto cuesta el servicio de personalización de este software? El soporte técnico de este sitio, que le da servicio casi en exclusiva a su blog, es del tipo de herramienta diseñada especialmente por un conocedor, cuyo salario anual no va a sufragarlo Yoani con el dividendo de sus regalías. Hasta ahí no llega su “patriotismo” aunque dinero ya tiene. De acuerdo con los datos de dominios que aparecen en Internet acerca del Portal Desde Cuba, que aloja el blog de Yoani, utiliza el sistema Joomla. Este es un sistema complejo de gerencia de portales dinámicos y sistema de gestión de contenidos, cuyos módulos solo puede habilitar alguien con conocimientos avanzados de informática. Y, por supuesto, no es el caso de esta señora. |
The Ferguson Case and Its Possible Implications for Cuba 12/1/2014 World
Post: "Anger grows slowly and one day explodes. The detonator can be a police
officer in Ferguson who kills a young black man, or a man in Havana who is
handcuffed and put in a squad car for the simple act of walking through a
tourist facility with that skin tone that brings so many problems in so many
places."
Race and Identity / Yoani Sanchez 2/17/2014 Cuba Verdad: "Amid repeated
institutional calls to end discrimination, the Cuban Civil Registry still
maintains a racial category for every citizen. Along with the date of our birth,
and our address, it specifies if we are white, mixed or black. The assignment of
a “B,” “M” or “N,” (Blanco-white, Mestizo-mixed, Negro-black), in a nation with
so much race mixing, is often the result of a functionary’s subjective
judgement."
Cómo ocultaron en Miami la votación contra el bloqueo en la ONU 11/3/2013 Cuba
Si: "Antúnez fue a la OEA de la mano del Directorio Democrático Cubano que en
Miami dirigen Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, Janisset Rivero y su propia hermana
Berta Antúnez; pero la orden la dieron los norteamericanos, que también han
trazado la estrategia contra Cuba desde el propio año 1959; si no desde antes.
Yoani viajó a California bajo la supervisión de la Fundación Nacional Cubano
Americana de Jorge Mas Santos asentada en Miami, pero la ruta la diseñan las
agencias norteamericanas. De eso ya no hay duda."
Cuban journalists exposing injustice merit more attention 5/6/2013 MSNBC: by
Sujatha Fernandes - "Much of the media coverage of [Yoani] Sánchez presents her
as a lone critical voice in a climate where the Cuban state does not tolerate
dissent and where—as Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos claimed in the Time
magazine piece—journalists and others cannot practice freedom of speech. While
it is true that there is censorship in Cuba, and journalism has always been
under the supervision of the Communist Party-controlled Department of
Revolutionary Orientation (DOR), there is a vigorous culture of criticism and
internal debate in Cuba. But often, because many artists, journalists, and
activists are not calling for the downfall of the government, they tend to go
ignored or sidelined within western media coverage."
Visita de Yoani a México: Un mito mediático que se deshace. 4/18/2013 Rebelion
Yoani en Miami 4/1/2013 Progreso: "What she failed to mention at this
city’s so-called Freedom Tower was how pleased she was to see Cuban Miami
embrace someone who in the past has expressed herself against the embargo and
the hegemonic U.S. possession of Guantanamo. She has also spoken of the right of
all Americans to travel to Cuba. And at times, even, Yoani has advocated for the
release of the Cuban Five – although this seems to have changed."
Interview With Cuban Blogger Yoani Sánchez 3/22/2013 NYT: "Mr. Rodríguez
also claimed that Ms. Sánchez, “receives instructions from U.S. authorities, as
well as material, technological and financial support out of U.S. federal
funds,” and contended that United Nations sponsorship of her visit would violate
the organization’s charter."
The Curious Case of Yoani Sanchez 3/20/2013 CounterPunch: "When asked about
the U.S. embargo against Cuba, Yoani stated unequivocally that it was an
interventionist policy and was a justification for the failings of the Cuban
government. Most importantly she emphasized that this policy of economic
strangulation was a “relic of the Cold War” and needed to be abandoned as soon
as possible (“Ya!”). She also called upon the closing of Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base. Not the detention center that has brought so much infamy to the United
States government and has challenged our notion of due process, but the actual
base which is a violation of Cuban sovereignty. Lastly, she called for the
release of the Cuban operatives known as the Cuban Five arguing that the Cuban
government has spent an unnecessary portion of its budget to campaign for their
release. When confronted by Miami Cubans who were incensed by such commentary
Yoani began to backpedal by saying that her comments about the Cuban Five were
“ironic” and that she believes that they are not innocent. This rationalization
poses a problem for the legitimacy of her position."
Yoani Sánchez destaca papel de tecnología en lucha interna en Cuba 3/16/2013 Nuevo
Herald
La bloguera cubana Yoani Sánchez viaja a Brasil 2/17/2013 BBC Mundo
SIP appoints Cuban mercenary 11/15/2012 Granma: "The Inter-American Press
Society (SIP-IAPA) – the CIA commercial press cartel whose Miami headquarters
bears the name of agent Jules Dubois, has appointed cyber-mercenary Yoani
Sánchez its representative in Cuba… The United States was represented by three
men at the 1949 SIP meeting in Quito, Ecuador. Two were senior U.S. intelligence
officers: Jules Dubois and Joshua Powers. The third, Tom Wallace, was a
high-ranking official from the State Department. The only one who could pretend
to be a journalist was Dubois. This authentic U.S. military intelligence colonel
– as he is described in a biographical note published after his death – in the
1940’s morphed into a reporter with the influential Chicago Tribune."
The Marketing of Yoani Sánchez: Translation as invention 2/5/2012 Machetera: "So
who really dug into the archives for the Rousseff photo and prompted the
conflation of Cuba’s immigration office and Brazil’s military dictatorship,
through a translation designed to sharpen that conflation and render Sánchez’s
plight even more poignant and tragic? Marketing has always recognized the
ancient law of contiguity as an essential concept: as human beings we have the
tendency to associate ideas or images with the ideas or images that immediately
precede them, and therefore the martyrdom evoked by the characterization of a
blindfolded Dilma Rousseff harassed by vociferous Brazilian military men is not
accidental, but a deliberate selection to create the effect for the reader that
Yoani Sánchez is the new martyr for our time."
¿Quién es Yoani Sánchez? 1/30/2012 CubaDebate: "Además de las fotografías y
videos que ha documentado la prensa cubana, Wikileaks publicó varios cables que
registran, desde el 2008, reuniones de YS con funcionarios de la SINA en La
Habana. En al menos 11 cables no censurados y emitidos desde la Oficina de
Washington en Cuba, hay referencias a reuniones con la bloguera e intercambio de
información de ella con diplomáticos de esa embajada."
Yoani Sánchez’s faked Obama interview 9/9/2011 Machetera: "Yet, according
to the latest leaked cables from Wikileaks, that is exactly how the Interests
Section handled a list of seven questions it claimed to have received from the
Grupo Prisa blogger. USIS supplied the President of the United States (POTUS) an
English translation of the questions, and then, it supplied his answers. When
the “interview” finally appeared in the Huffington Post and other outlets,
Obama’s answers bore little difference from the ones created by USIS."
Punishment Is Swift for Cuban Painter-Politician Who Calls for a Multi-Party
System 5/21/2011 Huff Post: by Yoani Sanchez - "Among the lashes applied by
Daddy State this time, is the closure of the cultural center run by the painter
Pedro Pablo Oliva, located in the city of Pinar del Rio. Urgently called before
the local authorities, this artist, winner of the National Arts Award, fell
under a barrage of criticisms and reprimands. He was questioned about having
declared in an interview that he was in favor of a multi-party system, and about
having sent a most cordial letter to this writer to publish in her blog."
Pedro Pablo Oliva desmiente a Yoani Sánchez 5/21/2011 Yohandry: "“Pedro
Pablo Oliva, en decisión personal, cerró su Casa Taller y no fueron las
autoridades las que intervinieron en esa medida”, dijo hoy una fuente consultada
en Pinar del Río. “Conozco que algunos disidentes dijeron en Twitter y algunos
blogs que el lugar fue cerrado por órdenes de arriba, lo cual es una gran
estafa, y le corresponde a Pedro Pablo Oliva explicar mucho mejor a la opinión
pública cubana e internacional la verdad de este asunto”, dijo."
Yoani Sánchez Asked Undersecretary of State for Online Shopping Access, Reveals
Wikileaks 1/3/2011 Cuba Now: “The bloggers, who partly for their
self-preservation don’t want to be grouped with the dissident community, were
equally optimistic about the course of events. ‘An improvement in relations with
the United States is absolutely necessary so that democracy can exist here’, the
pioneer of blogs, XXXXXXXXXXXX, who is also listed by Time magazine as one of
the 100 most influential people, said to Williams in her modest apartment.
‘Restrictions only do us harm’, and she added: ‘Do you know how much we could do
if we were able to use Pay Pal or buy stuff online with a credit card?”
Entregan a
bloguera medalla hecha “con plata de la dictadura de Batista” 12/9/2009 Aporrea: por
Jean-Guy Allard - "Según los organizadores del “acto”, la condecoración es
compuesta “por un peso de plata de los que circulaban” en los tiempos de la
dictadura sanguinaria de Fulgencio Batista. Los fundadores del Comité
paramilitar de la FNCA y que hoy dirigen el CLC, entre los cuales Diego Suarez,
Alberto Hernández Alberto Hernández y Ninoska Pérez-Castellón (esposa del
terrorista Roberto Martin Pérez, encabezaron las ágapes entrecortadas de
discursos caracterizados por su fanatismo de extrema derecha. El comité
paramilitar de la FNCA sufragó a Posada Carriles durante sus campañas de terror,
en 1997, en territorio cubano y orientaron la compra de un millonario arsenal de
armas por Antonio “Toñin” Llama, destinado a acciones terroristas de gran
envergadura."
Yoani Sánchez: la hija de PRISA 11/28/2009 Granma: "El proyecto Yoani es
una acción que explora otros caminos. ¿Quién es ella? Una filóloga graduada en
la Universidad de La Habana, esposa de uno de los publicitados (y ya demasiado
"quemados") "disidentes" de antaño, Reinaldo Escobar. Se fue de Cuba y anduvo
por algunos países europeos. Dicen que en España conoció a Carlos Alberto
Montaner —que a pesar de haber puesto algunas bombas en cines de La Habana, de
ser oficial de marines y de pertenecer a la CIA, quiere ser intelectual y
pretende regresar a Cuba como candidato a la presidencia—. Pero Yoani regresó.
Mauricio Vicent, que tuvo la misión de darla a conocer en El País, la cara
madrileña —sin dudas más culta— de El Nuevo Herad miamense, ambos propiedad del
Grupo PRISA, lo cuenta así: "Yoani y Teo (su hijo) también emigraron a Suiza,
pero decidieron regresar. La vida fuera de Cuba fue más dura de lo que creían, y
la reunificación con su esposo resultó imposible. (...) En un viaje familiar,
hace tres años, rompió el pasaporte y se presentó en Inmigración. "Tremenda
sorpresa cuando me dijeron: 'Pida el último en la cola de los que regresan'".
Traía un nuevo proyecto de vida: ser bloguera. Existen más de 700 blogs (cada
día aparece uno nuevo, dentro y fuera) sobre Cuba en Internet, poco o nada
conocidos, ¿por qué este sería diferente? Yoani contaría, en lenguaje coloquial,
cuan "desgraciados" somos los cubanos, cuan "oscuras" son nuestras vidas
cotidianas. Pero de entrada advertía: no soy política, afirmación que se aferra
al hecho de que no pertenece (al menos públicamente) a ningún grupúsculo. Y
¿para qué tendría que pertenecer si ninguno realmente es tomado en serio por la
población?"
The Yoani Show 11/23/2009 La
Alborada
Marketing war heats up among Cuba’s “dissidents” 11/23/2009 CubaDebate: "The
interview President Barack Obama granted the “blogger” Yoani Sánchez is the
culmination of a project I feel like calling Operation Marketing; aimed as it is
at the promotion and visibility of a new counter-revolutionary figure in Cuba,
in the face of the worn out and battered “dissidence,” fighting like a pack of
wolves with fangs bared in search of their prey: money. ...Without
cross-checking the facts and without verifying anything, plenty of media ran
with the story about the “kidnapping” and “beating” of the famous “blogger.”
Hundreds of articles circled the planet from one end to the other on that story,
which Yoani herself could not back up, even with the BBC, when she could not
present any proof of the blows she’d received. But not everyone got on the boat
of lies, and many have been questioning the script. One skeptic was the La
República newspaper, who went to look for the doctors who attended Yoani and
found that none of them found the least physical evidence for the supposed
aggression."
Las contradicciones de la bloguera cubana Yoani Sánchez 11/23/2009 CubaDebate: "El
9 de noviembre de 2009, tres días después de su desventura, Yoani Sánchez
recibió en su casa a la prensa extranjera para relatar en incidente. Primera
sorpresa para los periodistas expresada por el corresponsal de la BBC en La
Habana Fernando Ravsberg: a pesar de los “golpes y empujones”, los ” golpes en
los nudillos”, la nueva “andanada de golpes”, la “rodilla sobre [su] pecho”, los
golpes en “los riñones y [...] la cabeza”, “el cabello” halado, el “rostro
enrojecido por la presión y el cuerpo adolorido”, “los golpes [que] seguían
cayendo” y “todos estos morados” que evocó la bloguera cubana6 , Ravsberg notó
que Sánchez “no tiene hematomas, marcas o cicatrices”7 Las imágenes del canal
estadounidense CNN, que también entrevistó a la bloguera, confirman las palabras
del periodista británico. Además, el corresponsal de CNN toma precauciones
oratorias e insiste en el sufrimiento “aparente” de Sánchez (usa una muleta para
moverse)8 Según la Agence France Presse, que relata la historia clarificando con
esmero que se trata de la versión de Sánchez con el título “Cuba: la bloguera
Yoani Sánchez dice haber sido golpeada y detenida brevemente”, la bloguera “no
fue herida”
Cuba: Broadband and Other Such Matters 11/18/2009 Cuba-L-Analysis: by
Nelson P. Valdés - "The foreign press stationed in Cuba claims that a dissident
in Havana has a blog that is translated into 16 or more languages and has from 1
to 14 million visits a month. That is impressive for anyone worldwide. For
someone in Cuba it borders on a Fatima-like miracle.[7] From a logistical
standpoint, this is an unusual accomplishment. Is it possible for such traffic
to be handled by Cuba today? Who is/are the administrator[s] of the web pages in
all these languages? Translation is complicated, time-consuming, and a worldwide
translation team is costly. How is this work done? How is it paid for? And what
is the mechanism for transferring this payment?"
The company she keeps 11/16/2009 Machetera: "But it’s not the first time
that a high U.S. official has come out in favor of Yoani Sánchez. John
Negroponte, the Assistant Secretary of State under the presidency of W. Bush,
spoke at the 38th OAS General Assembly in June of 2008, in Medellín, Colombia,
dedicated to “Youth and Democratic Values.” There Negroponte forgot the main
problems facing the youth of Latin American and Caribbean countries and devoted
time to recognizing the latest Grupo Prisa creation. He said, “Yoani Sánchez
explains to the world the difficulties of Cuban life. She continues to be a
brilliant example of the courageous spirit of the Cuban people.” Unfortunately
this gentleman didn’t have on hand the truly brilliant examples of the courage
of this people which abounds in the life of this nation. John Negroponte’s
history is well known within the CIA; the shadowy Operation Phoenix was one of
his missions – a squad of mercenaries specializing in torture, who killed more
than 40,000 Vietnamese. He personally gave instructions to the group from a
secret office within the U.S. Embassy in Saigon."
El Libro de estilo de
EL PAÍS no rige en Cuba 11/13/2009 TerceraInformación, Madrid: "Este
artículo no pretende desmentir los hechos que cuenta Yoani Sánchez. Ignoramos si
los hechos denunciados se corresponden con la realidad y carecemos de medios
para contrastarlo. Hablemos, pues, de periodismo. Según el Libro de estilo del
diario EL PAÍS, diario que publica la noticia que analizamos, el titular de un
artículo debe corresponderse con su contenido. Concretamente dicta: "Los
titulares han de ser inequívocos, concretos, asequibles para todo tipo de
lectores y ajenos a cualquier clase de sensacionalismo. Asimismo, serán
escuetos, aunque nunca se sacrificará la claridad expositiva a su brevedad, ni
se eludirán las normas elementales de la sintaxis castellana". Este texto de
Mauricio Vicent se titula así: "La 'bloguera' Yoani Sánchez, agredida por la
policía cubana". Sin verbo, con una coma. ¿Qué denota ese signo de puntuación?
Puede querer decir dos cosas. "Yoani ha sido agredida" o "Yoani dice que ha sido
agredida". Aunque todos sospechamos lo que quiere decir, semeja que el autor no
puede saber si lo que denuncia Yoani Sánchez es cierto o no, así que opta por
reproducir la versión de la denunciante bajo un titular hábilmente ambiguo."
US condemns Cuba over blogger beatings 11/11/2009 AFP: "Award-winning
blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday
life in communist Cuba, was detained and beaten along with two fellow bloggers
by Cuban secret police on November 6."
Yoani Sánchez and the censors of utopia 11/4/2009 Cubarte
Yoani e o racismo em Cuba 9/9/2009 VEJA, Brazil
Si los blogs son terapéuticos ¿quién paga la terapia de Yoani Sánchez? 8/25/2009 CiberPrensa: "En
Generación Y aparece en un lugar prominente un enlace para comprar el libro de
Yoani en italiano, Cuba libre. Esto es algo que puede hacer cualquiera a través
de PayPal, pero no un cubano que vive en Cuba, porque contraviene las
regulaciones del bloqueo, donde la normativa que prohíbe el comercio electrónico
en este caso es muy clara. Ya quisieran muchos periodistas que han quedado sin
empleo “tener la habilidad” para emplear sus herramientas de administración y
servicios, con gateway de pago o pasarela electrónica para el traspaso de dinero
a través de tarjetas de crédito. Sin embargo, para que nadie se equivoque, tiene
su Copyright © 2009 Generación Y – All Rights Reserved, algo que ningún bloguero
cubano puede hacer tampoco desde la Isla."
Yoani Sánchez: Pentagon babe 5/8/2009 Machetera: "Military academics offer
another extremely important variable in the information war waged on the
Internet. In order to turn prejudices into real facts, they should be filtered
through a personal perspective, preferably accompanied by pictures and other
evidence which prove that the witness can be found where the story takes place.
Military Review,[9] the Pentagon’s official magazine, has dedicated extensive
analysis to the importance of blogs and cyber-dissidents in this strategy. They
serve to offer a face and anecdote to a rhetoric that corresponds to the
political designs of the North American military for each region in conflict,
particularly those where Internet use is on the rise."
The Discourse on Racism in Anti-Castro Publications, 2008-2009
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