I second your suspicions aboutYoanis, as she should know better not to trust and support Barack Hussein Obama.

Yoanis (unlike the majority of Cubans in the island) has access to the Internet and his record, values and choices of associations, therefore she’s fully informed on our current President, and yet chooses to support him (this smells like rotten fish to me).

If one thing I learned living in a Marxist society (and I left that society nearly forty years ago) is to spot a Marxist anywhere around the world and Yoanis is failing this test with an F- (and she’s not a dumb woman), so I don’t know what else to say.

Trust me, it does not take a nuclear scientist to spot a Marxist, just the right values and a good dose of common sense.

And the plain simple fact is that Obama is a Marxist, no if, buts or maybes.

I cannot comprehend how Yoanis can still support him therefore my misgivings about her.

Enough said, in time the truth will be revealed…I sincerely hope that I’m wrong.

Anyway, I am suspicious about Yaoni's love of Obama or respect for his opinions.

However, with all due respect, the questions proferred by Sanchez were inane and infantile, at best...They are an affront to reality, be it in the US or Cuba.

As a student of history, as a grandson & son of Brigade 2506 members, (with a father that went on to be a "company man" too), I believe that Sanchez, at best, serves the interests of the regime, albeit in, an un-official manner.

Please recall that she was an Obama goose stepper, a denouncer of the constitutional President of Honduras, Don Roberto Micheletti Bain and of the armed forces of Honduras.

She injected herself into the travel restrictions debate by sending a letter to Cong. Berman, without having the courtesy to provide Ros Lehtinen a copy, although they were on different sides of the issue.

Val, don't you think if they wanted to shut her down, they have the capability and would???? Don't be naive, just like Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz in the 80s. (ask Cary Roque, a real Freedom Fighter)

As for the questions specifically, Cubans don't have net access because of the embargo? asking an American President to hypothetically take off the table a military option? traveling to the Cuba??? the framing of exiled Cuban Americans as problematic interlocutors or having too much influence in the policy????

Is she oblivious to all the European, Asian, Canadian, etc tourists which have been coming to Cuba or the corresponding investments/businesses in her nation???

We need to focus on people like Dr Elias Biscet, Blas Roca, Antunez and Beatriz Roque, etc.

saludos

I share your views, as I have misgivings about Yoani too (my gut feeling tells me to trust my instincts). I hope that I’m wrong, yet I trust my instincts because as Tony44 I grew up in Cuba and saw and understand how the Castro brothers run the show and how the Cuban people behave under their rule.

There is something about Yoani that does not fly by me, like her love fest for Obama which totally turns me off because Obama is another Marxist bent on destroying the fiber of his own country (very much like Fidel Castro but using different methods) and the other issues like travel to Cuba and lifting of the embargo.

Time will only tell who the real Yoani is; in the meantime I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt as age and wisdom have taught me to do when I have misgivings about someone.

On the other hand I must say that I have no misgivings whatsoever about Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet (that’s the leader Yoani should be following, not Obama).

Let's just hope she's for real and just support the work she does, while she does it, when it's well done.

At the same time,you sit comfortably in the U.S. and condone the embargo because, while it hurts the Cuban people, it hurts the government as well, which will ostensibly bring about a regime change or act as some leveraging tool.

You then become upset when Cubans are not willing participates in your strategy for regime change? She has a right to be angry with the United States, and it is pretty obvious from the totality of her posts that her principle gripes lie with the Cuban government, no the U.S.

Let's stay on Yoani's side, and respect her right to not agree with us on every single issue.

Yoani, Yimami, Yomama, or whatever, do you expect me to believe that you can day-in-and-day-out write a "hard-core opposition" blog in today's Cuba (or for that matter in the Cuba of the last 50 years), in the midst of a totalitarian, my-survival-first, el que se revire le arranco el pescuezo communist, stalinist, leninist government without a quid pro quo on the side? Excuse-moi, but I DON'T BUY IT!

Call me whatever you want, but something with this lady just doesn't seem right or equates... I hope I'm wrong and time will tell. In the mean time, keep writing Yoani, who knows, maybe you'll convert a couple of us unbelievers before judgment day (that being Cuba Libre y Democratica!).

Having said the above, if Yoani indeed has grown a mega pair of cojones, immensely bigger than mine in this bucolic safety of exile, I'll take it all back and herald you till Kingdom come. Just allow me the benefit of the doubt...

One of this "regalitos" would be some "famous disidents" with some weight in and out of the island and with real possibilities to get to power or high positions in the new goverment,so "some legacy" and properties of the Castro family and descendants won't be affected under the new sistem,on one hand and on the other,the same "disidents" also will carry out changes for the improvement of the island economy and perhaps also political change.Also some of those "new leaders" will push the idea of "borron y cuenta nueva" in some form,something that is going to be one of the basic stones of the "neo-castrismo.

Im not saying that Yoani is one of those "regalitos",but i don't descart the possibility neither.

Sorry but i lived inside the monster for quite some time and the smell of something "fishy" never goes away.

saludos

I admire what she is doing and also disagree with her on several issues, including the embargo claim and the Obamania.

But it is also true that we need to keep in mind where in Cuba history is she (and myself and three generations of Cubans born under the communist dictatorship) coming from.

Unless you have left to a free country and have a personal interest in recovering the time lost due to communist brainwashing, there is always a point when one hits the Stokolm Syndrome, to say the least.

See? We can always count on you to bring constructive, to the point and on the issue commentary to the table.

Truly, I dont know what we'd do around here without your learned expertise on the subject at hand.

Im honored and humbled. Really.

What she's doing is indeed commendable and extremely brave, although like Honey, I hold my reservations towards her, given what I feel are too many nebulous circumstances.
Again, it is great that she has taken this bold step in putting out these questions, and of course we already know the predictable outcome, which is absolute silence on the Cuban side. (Not that I hold much stock for anything coming out of the present US administration)

Ultimately, because of her much misguided base, her questions really need to be addressed and answered by those who could give her a wider and more accurate understanding into the historic realities of the Cuban-US rift 50 years ago. It is then that perhaps she could rephrase her questions more precisely.

Then again, the answer to Cuba's problems can not come from the leadership on either side of "the great divide", being as they seem to be ideological birds of a feather.....
Freedom in Cuba has to be procured by the Cuban people on the island, and in order to do that they need to become aware of some basic truths they ignore. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". Then and only then will the Cubans have a springboard from which to fight for their ultimate independence. Yoani is great spokesperson for starters.