{"id":1493,"date":"2009-10-15T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:58:13","slug":"cuba-blogger-cannot-receive-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/cuba-blogger-cannot-receive-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba blogger cannot receive prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yoani_sanchez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1494\" title=\"Yoani Sanchez\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yoani_sanchez-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Yoani Sanchez\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>A dissident Cuban blogger cannot go to New York to receive a top journalism prize, after the authorities upheld a ban on her travel abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yoani Sanchez, 34, won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Generacion Y, a blog critical of Cuba&#8217;s one-party Communist government.<\/p>\n<p>The prize is the oldest international award in journalism.<\/p>\n<p>It is given by Columbia University to journalists who have furthered inter-American understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The immigration office just informed me that the ban remains on my leaving the country,&#8221; Ms Sanchez said on Monday via the social networking website Twitter, where she has 6,638 followers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am going to celebrate on the night of the award with some friends. I am not going to let the refusal to travel ruin the happiness of the prize,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dream of an island where nobody needs to ask permission to enter and leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Generacion Y has become a trusted source for news on Cuba, with the site receiving 14 million hits a month.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia&#8217;s Graduate School of Journalism, released a statement expressing his disappointment over the Cuban government&#8217;s refusal to allow Yoani Sanchez to travel to New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Cuban government ought to value Ms Sanchez&#8217;s work as a sign that young Cubans are ready to take Cuba into a better future &#8211; one that will have the free press the Cuban people deserve,&#8221; Mr Lemann said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Time Magazine named Ms Sanchez as one of the world&#8217;s most influential people, and this year it listed Generacion Y as one of the world&#8217;s top 25 blogs.<\/p>\n<p>But in Cuba readership is limited due to restricted internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 2.1% of Cubans have regular access to the global internet and 11.5% to the Cuban intranet, according to the Washington-based democracy and human rights organisation Freedom House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bloggers can go online at government-owned internet cafes, at universities and hotels,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Generacion Y has been given recognition &#8211; in 2008 Spain&#8217;s El Pais newspaper gave it an award for overcoming limits to free expression.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Ms Sanchez was denied an exit visa to attend the award ceremony in Madrid.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dissident Cuban blogger cannot go to New York to receive a top journalism prize, after the authorities upheld a ban on her travel abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8064,7],"tags":[8057,8024],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america","category-tourism","tag-america","tag-cuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9391,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}