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Internet A-Twitter With Castro Death Rumors
MIAMI (CBS4) – Social media giant Twitter was buzzing with rumors that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is dead, or very close to it. According to CBS4 News partner The Miami Herald, the trend began...
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Cuban Dissident Blogger Yoani Sanchez Detained
BAYAMO, Cuba (CBSMiami/AP) — A Spanish man held in Cuba went on trial Friday in connection with a car crash in which prominent dissident Oswaldo Paya was killed, and several government opponents,...
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Cuban Dissident, Blogger Joani Sanchez Released From Prison
MEXICO CITY (CBSMiami/Herald) — Just hours after Cuba’s best-known blogger was arrested, Yoani Sanchez was released. On Thursday, Sanchez was arrested to keep her from covering a sensitive criminal...
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Cuba Blogger Allowed To Leave Island
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A blogger who has been a harsh critic of the Castro regime in Cuba left the island on Sunday. Yoani Sanchez said she was refused an exit permit for years because of her high-profile...
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Dissident Cuban Blogger Coming To Miami-Dade College
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez will speak in April at the Miami-Dade College Freedom Tower, according to a release from the school. Sanchez has been a harsh and vocal critic...
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Tickets Available For Yoani Sanchez Appearance In Miami
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – When Cuban dissident blogger makes her way to South Florida next month, she’s scheduled to speak at Miami Dade College’s Freedom Tower. Free tickets for the April 1st event are...
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Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Visits Washington D.C.
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez made a stop in Washington D.C. as part of her nearly three month trip outside her homeland. On Tuesday she met with U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and other...
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Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Makes Miami Stop On World Tour
MIAMI (CBS4) – Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez arrived in Miami Thursday. Her first stop was the Shrine to Our Lady of Charity in Coconut Grove. “I just got here from Amsterdam and it feels great to be in...
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Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez To Speak At Freedom Tower Monday
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Internationally acclaimed Cuban blogger will speak Monday at Miami-Dade College’s Freedom Tower. As part of her three month tour of dozens of countries in the Americas and Europe,...
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Yoani Sanchez To Speak At Freedom Tower, FIU
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Internationally acclaimed Cuban blogger will speak Monday afternoon at Miami-Dade College’s Freedom Tower. As part of her three month tour of dozens of countries in the Americas and...
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Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Draws Crowd At Freedom Tower & FIU
MIAMI (CB4) – The setting could not have been more appropriate. Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez entered Miami’s famed Freedom Tower to hundreds of people chanting, “¡Libertad! ¡Libertad!” In English, that...
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Hackathon For Cuba Begins In Miami
MIAMI (AP) — The term hacking has a negative connotation, but a group of technology experts gathering in Miami will try to come up with ways to use their hacking ability to improve Internet access and...
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Miami Hosts Annual Hispanicize Conference
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Started five years ago as a way to help connect major companies with the Hispanic consumer market, the annual Hispanicize Conference in Miami has expanded across genres to include a...
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Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez To Address Latino Event In Miami
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is being honored Tuesday at this year’s annual Hispanicize conference in Miami. Sanchez’s blog Generation Y focuses on slices of life in Cuba,...
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Challenges Emerge Following “Cuban Twitter”
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — New challenges are likely to emerge following the revelation that a U.S. government-funded program set up a cellphone-based social network in Cuba. The challenges will be for...
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Cuban Blogger Denounced By Italian Translator
MIAMI (CBSMiami) –Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was blasted by an Italian-language translator who worked with her for the past six years. According to Progeso Weekly, Gordiano Lupi, 54, published an...
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Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez’s New Website Hacked
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Well that didn’t take long. About an hour after Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez launched http://www.14ymedio.com, her independent news website, it was hacked. Anyone inside...
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