Yoanni Sanchez's blog has become a thorn in the side of Cuba's communist regime
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez posted seven questions to President Barack Obama and to the island’s Communist leader Raúl Castro.
She was stunned when Obama replied. Castro – at least at time of posting – hasn’t. Strange, huh?
She took the initiative, she said, because for too long “Cubans have resigned themselves to having no one `up there’ explain or consult with us the road this island will take, so much like a ship taking on water and at the point of sinking.”
“We seek to engage with Cubans outside of the government as we do elsewhere around the world, as the government, of course, is not the only voice that matters,” Obama wrote. “We take every opportunity to interact with the full range of Cuban society and look forward to the day when the government reflects the freely expressed will of the Cuban people.”
“Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba. It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with an outlet to express yourself so freely,” Obama wrote.
More than four out of five of Cubans are dissatisfied with their country’s direction, a new survey reveals. Some 20% of Cubans cited food scarcity as their biggest concern and 82 percent of respondents believed life on the island was going “so-so, badly or very badly.”
The survey was conducted, by necessity surreptitiously, by the International Republican Institute.
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