The Web vs Tyranny

If you do not know of Cuban Yoani Sanchez's blog, Generacion Y, you should. The Castros loathe her of course and have prevented her from traveling abroad. And still she blogs. Her latest (translated from the Spanish):

On top of everything, yesterday I got a new award. This one has the title of a Saturday night movie: “The Captive Blogger” and it consists of not letting me travel to Madrid for the Ortega & Gasset Awards Ceremony. Those who honored me with the Captive Blogger prize refuse to provide their names and surnames, although we have referred to them in this blog as “them”. Those are the ones who, with a military uniform, administer our rights as citizens and do not grant explanations, but deliver orders.

I never thought I deserved so many attentions, but if the officers insist, ok, I accept this new distinction. They forget that in cyberspace my voice can travel with no limits, come and go without asking for permission… It does not matter they have retained my passport. I have another one that, in the nationality section, bears one brief word: “blogger”.

The best passport there is.