Cuba libre. Vivir y escribir en La Habana (Spanish Edition)
Licenciada en Filologia. Reside en La Habana y combina su pasion por la informatica con su trabajo en el Portal Desde Cuba.<BR>Yoani Maria Sanchez Cordero (born September 4, 1975 in Havana) is a Cuban philologist and blogger. She has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government. In November 2009, US President, Barack Obama, wrote that her blog -provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba- and applauded her efforts to -empower fellow Cubans to express themselves through the use of technology.- Sanchez is best known for her blog, Generacion Y (English: Generation Y), that despite censorship in Cuba, she is able to publish by e-mailing entries to friends outside the country, who then post them online. The blog is translated and available in 17 languages. Time magazine listed her as one of the world's 100 most influential persons in 2008, stating that -under the nose of a regime that has never tolerated dissent, Sanchez has practiced what paper-bound journalists in her country cannot; freedom of speech.