Generación Y Wins The BOBs Best Blog of 2008

Yoani takes the top prize in the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards -- The BOBs. The jury said she "gives voice to an entire generation of Cubans and provides the world with a window into Cuba through her clear and poetic writing."

Her beautiful brave writing does much more than that; her writing bridges 50 years of violence enforced silence and separation of the Cuban people by the castro dictatorship. Her writing verifies the failure of the Revolution.

In her latest post, Yoani writes, "What more could one ask." Her answer is the same as for all Cubans, whether on or off the island: Freedom.

Well yes, but there is still much that I lack. Not exactly prizes, but rights long neglected, like the ability to be read within my own country. I must be able to say all this in reality and not just in the virtual world of a blog. To transform this civic plaza that is Generation Y into a concrete existence where trolls also abound and the consequences are much stronger than a simple hack. I need something more than kilobytes, I need realities.

We still lack that which is the most coveted prize: the right to dialogue, dissent and to dye ourselves in the political colors of our choosing within our Island. We must not let this phenomenon be limited only to the blogosphere, we have to go in search of the jackpot: free opinion.

Posted by Ziva at November 29, 2008 12:33 PM

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Posted by: j2tharome at November 30, 2008 02:38 AM