Authorities Block Access to the Cuba’s Most-Read Blog
Authorities Block Access to the Cuba’s Most-Read Blog

Cubans are no longer allowed to access the country’s most-read blog, Generacion Y. Cuban authorities seem to have taken this decision because of the fact that Yoani Sanchez’ blog’s tone was highly critical. On the other hand, Generation Y was very popular among young Cuban Internet users and not only. In February, for example, it reportedly received no less than 1.2 million hits, according to its users.

Yoani Sanchez, the main author of this blog, as well as two other home-grown bloggers seem to have really angered the Cuban authorities. "So the anonymous censors of our famished cyberspace have tried to shut me in a room, turn off the light and not let my friends in," Yoani Sanchez wrote on her blog on Monday. Sanchez said that users from Cuba were not allowed anymore to access the web site, which is hosted by a server in Germany.

But, despite Communist authorities’ censorship, Sanchez found a way to beat her “enemies’” system and to access her web site through an indirect route. However, common Cuban users are not longer able to read the popular blog.

The courageous Cuban blogger is 32 years old and a philology graduate. She seems to have angered the Cuban authorities because she used to write on her blog about her daily life in Cuba, describing economic and political problems happening in her country. Sanchez has also criticized the country’s new leader, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro’s brother, who took over last month.




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