Blogging in Cuba

Marc Cooper on the Castro regime's attempts to nip blogging in the bud. I guess it's testimonial to the power of blogging that the authorities are treating Yoani Sanchez like a radical dissident when she doesn't even blog about politics... and in fact doesn't even really blog (she sends her dispatches from the island out by email to a network of foreign friends who in turn translate her writing into several languages and maintain her popular blog, which has a worldwide audience). But the fact that she has an audience, a network of international friends, above all a charismatic power with words and access to a powerful medium of organization and dissent; these things make her a dangerous and marked woman.