Reinaldo Escobar met Yoani Sánchez when she was just 18. She came to his house and wanted to borrow a book. Escobar said he quickly realized Sánchez was “an extraordinary person…someone for whom it was worth risking everything.” Nearly two decades later, Escobar, now 64, said he never expected they’d be caught up in a [...]
Interview with Rosa Baez
Rosa C. Baez, a supporter the Cuban revolution, runs a pro-government blog called La Polilla Cubana. She and others who post on her blog regularly criticize Yoani Sanchez and other cyber-dissidents. See more of interview in 20-minute video on the Cuba Money Project’s Vimeo channel. Baez contends that money fuels Cuba’s opposition movement and doesn’t [...]
Interview with Yoani Sanchez
Cuban dissidents need international support and protection, but not financial assistance that is tied to political conditions, blogger Yoani Sanchez said. For more of this interview, see 16-minute video on the Cuba Money Project’s Vimeo channel. Sanchez is Cuba’s most famous blogger and has won a string of international awards over the past two years. [...]