Blogging in Cuba can get you in a heap of trouble (translation: jail), but that threat hasn't stopped hundreds of bloggers on the island determined to get their messages out. Lately, Cuban bloggers have taken to dressing like tourists, feigning accents and secretly using hotel internet lines (native Cubans aren't allowed inside tourist hotels).
Meet blogger Yoani Sanchez and her blog Generacion Y (Google-translated version here). Once inside the hotel, Yoani Sanchez has to write fast. Not only because she fears getting caught, but because online access is prohibitively expensive. An hour online costs about $6, the equivalent of half of what the average Cuban make in a month.
Independent bloggers like Sanchez have to build their sites on servers outside Cuba, and they have more readers outside Cuba than inside .
That is not surprising, since only 200,000 Cubans of the 11 million on the island have access to the World Wide Web. This is the lowest rate in all of Latin America -- and sadly ironic for a country with such a high literacy rate (97%).
1 comments:
bravo to you and for the stand for freedom you are taking against this repression. I hope you will be alright.
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