A vibrant, independent blogging culture is emerging in Cuba, of all places. Numerous journalistic blogs are exploring important social and economic issues.
Will the regime crack down, or is a new era dawning?
Opening the pages of Granma each day was a frustrating experience for Laritza Diversent, who saw the newspaper, the official organ of the Communist Party, as ignoring her needs and misrepresenting her reality. It convinced the 28-year-old Havana lawyer to start a blog, a place, she says, where she can reflect people's frustrations and helplessness, their joys and aspirations. "It belongs to thousands of young people who are trying to express many things, who want alternatives, who dream of a future," Diversent said. "Even if we feel scared, it is an opportunity to say what we think."
Despite vast legal and technical obstacles, a growing number of Cuban bloggers have prevailed over the regime's tight Internet restrictions to disseminate island news and views online. The bloggers, mainly young adults from a variety of professions, have opened a new space for free expression in Cuba, while offering a fresh glimmer of hope for the rebirth of independent ideas in Cuba's closed system.
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