soy cubana y criada en los estados unidos. haveses estoy confundida pues estoy orgulloza de ser nacida en Cuba, pero tambien adoro los estados unidos y me siento orgullosa de ser americana.

Suerte

Alina

Cubana que piensa con su cerebro.

Is looking for foreign people to sell her way of life……very suspicios life.

The ex-president Fidel Castro has just published a prologue of the book “Fidel, Bolivia and Something More” in which he denigrates the blog Generación Y, which my wife writes on the internet. From the first day she has put her full name (which he omits) with her photo in view of the readers in order to sign the texts that she writes for the sole purpose, confessed repeated times, of vomiting everything in our reality that nauseates her.

The ex-president disapproves of the fact that Yoani has accepted this year’s Ortega and Gasset prize for digital journalism. arguing that this is something fostered by imperialism in order to drive the waters of it’s mill. I recognize the right of this man to make this comment, but I permit myself to make the observation that the responsibility implied in receiving a prize will never be comparable to that of awarding it, and Yoani, at least, has never placed a medal on the chest of any corrupt official, traitor, dictator or murderer.

I make this clarification because I remember perfectly well that it was the author of these reproaches who put (or ordered put) the Order of José Martí on the most terrible and undeserving of all possible lapels: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Nicolae Ceausescu, Todor Yivkov, Gustav Husak, Janos Kadar, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Robert Mugabe, Heng Samrin, Erich Honecker and others that I have forgotten. I would like to read, in the light of these times, a reflection that justifies those inappropriate honors that, to drive the water of other mills, sullied the name of our apostle.

It’s true that the name of the philosopher Ortega y Gasset can be equated with elitist and even reactionary ideas, but at least, in difference from those decorated by the author of the prologue, he never launched tanks against his nonconformist neighbors, or built palaces, or imprisoned anybody that thought differently than him, or left his followers in the stockade, or amassed fortunes with the misery of his people, or constructed camps of extermination, or gave the order to shoot those who, in order to escape, jumped over the wall of their patio.

MEN’S THINGS (English translation)
written by: Yoani Sanchez in Generación Y

In this Central Havana of guapos* and brawls where I was born, I learned that there are some limits that a woman should never transgress. I have gone through life disobeying those laughable laws of machismo, but now ?and in an exclusive manner? I’m going to accept one of them. Precisely the one that that most displeases me. The one that advises: “a woman needs a man who represents her and defends her when another man assaults or maligns her”. On feeling attacked by someone with power infinitely greater than mine and more than twice my age and what’s more ?as my childhood girlfriends would say? by a “macho-masculine-male”, I have decided that it will be my husband, the journalist Reinaldo Escobar, who responds.

I am referring to the denigrating judgement of me that Fidel Castro has expressed in the prologue to the book “Fidel, Bolivia and Something More”. Not even such a “magnificent” assault will make me abandon the premise of not entering into a cycle of retort and self-defense. I’m sorry to tell him that I remain with a subject called “Cuba”.
Let’s leave the squabbling to Reinaldo and Fidel. Despite the gossip of the neighbors, I’ll continue with my “womanly” work of weaving the unraveled fabric of our civil society.

The guapos of my barrio will know that I learned “something” from them!

*Don’t confuse a Cuban guapo with a gallant, debonair man. That could cost you a beating or, in the worst case, an explanatory stabbing.

Hasta la vista,

Aurora.

Yoani has indeed achieved the appearance of something remarkable. While recent posts fetch 1600 comments, most are actually spam and nonsense. The average American probably knows more about her than the Cuban – thanks to the fawning US press. Her audience is mostly in the US. She is just one of many Cuban bloggers that criticizes the regime in cryptic tomes.

The “digital journalism” award is curious, as I’m sure Yoani will admit she is not a journalist, as the word is commonly understood. Yoani writes about things close to her, as experienced personally – not from the required distance.

I think it is fair to say, if anything, this second award in a row for a critic of the Revolution symbolizes a political choice. Cuban bashing is a way for good (Spanish) liberals to show their bonafides to the establishment.