News from Cuba:
The dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez – famed for her outspoken online critiques of the country's communist regime – has issued an appeal to Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, to help her leave the Caribbean island.You can read Yoani’s award-winning blog Generación Y, here.
Sánchez, a Havana-based writer who has been accused by Cuban authorities of conducting a "cyberwar" against the government, has not been able to leave the country since 2004 because of migration rules that require Cubans to receive government permission to travel.
She has now been invited to the Brazilian state of Bahia in February for the screening of a documentary about press freedom in Cuba and Honduras in which she features.
But speaking to the Brazilian television channel Record this week, Sánchez said she expected her latest request for an exit permit would again be declined without "high-level intervention".
Follow her on Twitter, here.
Buy her book, here.
And watch her direct plea for an exit-visa to leave the country.
Like I said, the power of the social network.
Now, time for a change. It's got to be easier than blogging, tweeting, publishing and posting on YouTube -- all from an undisclosed location.
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