Generation Y

Today I am not going to be original, but I want to talk a little bit about today's editorial in my local newspaper...

Marvin Galeas (a really admired national journalist and writer) wrote about the following blog: http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/

Irony of ironies... freedom of speech in the country with most restricted freedoms: Cuba.

"Generation Y" is a blog that has shaken like no one else has in the last couple of years the prolonged communist regime of the Castro brothers, she even got beaten to death by a pair of big army bullies because of it... and even though she was invited to work in Spain, she returned to the island... her island, she even destroyed her passport to avoid being extradited.

She was named one of the most influential persons in the world by Times Magazine, she won the "Ortega y Gasset" award and she even got president Barack Obama to answer, in the White House's official website, 7 questions she asked him on her blog.
( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yoani-sanchez/presidemt-obamas-answers_b_363553.html )

What makes this blog different from thousand other about the Cuban regime in cyberspace? First of all, there is not a single insult in it, she writes about the real life, daily life in Cuba, the small things that matter and that make life in Cuba different… she is witty (don't take me wrong) but she does it in a clever and entertaining way.

It's interesting how her blog is banned in Cuba (to the small privileged class that has access to internet) so she finds really amusing ways to publish it every day… and for all of us to whom internet is almost a commodity, it's a blog worth following