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David Adams, the St. Petersburg Times‘ Latin American correspondent, writes a fascinating story about Cubans blogging on the island.
Adams writes about Yoani Sanchez, a 32-year-old woman who writes the blog Generacion Y. Here’s a passage:
The name of her blog refers to the popularity early in the Cuban revolution for children’s names starting with “Y” – Yoandri, Yuslady, Yuniesky. These “children of the revolution” were brought up on socialist promises that the state would provide for everyone. Instead, the Soviet Union collapsed, ushering in an era of dire shortages.In a Jan. 26 post, Sanchez described a futile search for lemons to cure a sore throat. It became an opportunity to question Cuba’s centralized agricultural system:
“Should I keep up hope, or conform and forget the taste of lemons?” she concluded. “When will the land belong to someone who makes it produce, and not a state that under-utilizes it in abandoned large estates?”
Sanchez says her blog is an effort to break the silence of her generation. “I felt I had this internal pressure building up inside me after so many years of silence. I felt a need to express, to vomit it all up – an exorcism.”
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