Cuban blogger wins Spanish media prize
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- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:02:14 +0200
Cuban blogger wins Spanish media prize
Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2008
A Cuban blogger who regularly criticizes the island's communist system in her posts has won Spain's prestigious Ortega y Gasset journalism prize in the digital category.
Yoani Sánchez, 32, uses Internet cafes in Havana to run her blog, Generacion Y, named after the generation of 30-something Cubans whose names begin with the letter Y as a result of the Soviet influence on the island during the 1980s.
She recently complained that the government has blocked Cubans from accessing her blog, but hinted that there are easy ways to get around the restrictions.
The prize's jury on Friday highlighted ``the shrewdness with which her work has dealt with the limitations on freedom that exist in Cuba, her lively information style and the force with which she has incorporated into the global space of citizen journalism.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/484487.html
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