Award Winning Cuban Blogger Banned from Leaving to Recieve Award
11:21 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Blogs|Cuba|Media|media justice
18 Oct 2009Cubana blogger Yoani Sánchez was awarded the oldest prize in journalism, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize. Problem is, she wasn’t allowed the leave Cuba to accept the award. The awards were announced in the middle of the summer but according to her, she somehow held out a tiny bit of hope that she would be allowed to leave. She posted a video of her visit to the Cuban immigration office where she was told she couldn’t leave the country but not why. Could it be because she has been an unapologetic critic of the Cuban government whose voice, via the internet, has global reach?
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2 Responses to Award Winning Cuban Blogger Banned from Leaving to Recieve Award
Silvio Rendon
October 18th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I find weird that in an immigration office someone was filming the scene. In the US that is illegal. One cannot use cells, cameras, camcorders in immigration facilities.
One could secretly use a recording device in the US and show how immigrants are treated here, with a foreigner whose visa or entry to the US was denied giving a speech like the one Yoani knowingly gave for the audience that now watches her video.
Maegan La Mala
October 18th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Not weird at all. In fact I have been hesitant for a while to write about Cuban blogs because I don’t want to demonize Cuba, pero I think I have written enough about the hypocrisy that exists in the US regarding immigration, criminal justice, racial justice and on and on.