Raul Castro's regime has unlocked access to portals Voices From Cuba and Cuban, which host more than 30 blogs of dissidents, including Generation Y, the famous philologist Yoani Sanchez, who, for the first time in nearly three years, have seen his writings on the internet. Sanchez has held this "little hole" left by the Cuban authorities to the opposition in the island to manage their blogs.
"He had more than three years without managing my own site about censorship of the regime and for the first time, it seems that we can manage our Web sites, has expressed Sanchez told Europa Press telephone from Havana. Since Cuba was established in February 2006 but it was not until mid 2007 when he took power at the international level.
In March 2008 was "censored" by the government of Raul Castro. To replace it appeared in January 2009 Cuban Voices, but in August the same year was blocked. In Cuba, the Internet is accessible almost exclusively to government officials, academics and foreign businessmen. Tourists can enter the network at hotels, where many dissidents are connected to contact with people from other countries.
Sanchez learned of the "release" of the gates a couple of days ago a friend who could access the Internet in a hotel in Havana. "It was a surprise because these three years we reviewed every week to see if there was luck, but when we introduced the URL will appear a blank page," he said.
The well-known dissident know the reasons why the Castro regime has decided to allow access to these portals. However, does not rule in question "some short-term" for the celebration of the XIV International Conference and Fair Informática 2011, in Havana, involving people from various countries.
If it is a permanent decision, Sanchez says that "there is nothing to thank" the Castro government for lifting the "siege of censorship" because it is a "right" of the population and the opposition "express" . Cuba considers bloggers Sánchez and others critical of the revolution as "cibermercenarios" serving the U.S.
and other political enemies. This was relevant again this week with the leak in Internet video of a lecture in which he harangued technical expert Cuban security about the need to fight the "enemy" bloggers. Despite this hostile attitude toward online social movements, Cuban Vice Minister of Communications, Jorge Luis Perdomo, has said this week that the Government did not see "any political obstacle" to open the Network access to the population and that there is "total willingness" to further develop the telecommunications sector in the Caribbean island.
According to official figures, Cuba had 1.6 million Internet users in 2009, resulting in 14.2 per hundred inhabitants. But most do not have full Internet access, but the mail and intranet pages selected by the Government. The Castro regime connectivity limitations attributed to the trade embargo maintained by the United States for half a century, which forced him to use a satellite link slow and expensive than a physical connection.
All this could change after this week when a fiber optic cable of 1,600 km connecting to Cuba with its ally Venezuela, multiplying by 3,000 the data transmission rate of the island. 
"He had more than three years without managing my own site about censorship of the regime and for the first time, it seems that we can manage our Web sites, has expressed Sanchez told Europa Press telephone from Havana. Since Cuba was established in February 2006 but it was not until mid 2007 when he took power at the international level.
In March 2008 was "censored" by the government of Raul Castro. To replace it appeared in January 2009 Cuban Voices, but in August the same year was blocked. In Cuba, the Internet is accessible almost exclusively to government officials, academics and foreign businessmen. Tourists can enter the network at hotels, where many dissidents are connected to contact with people from other countries.
Sanchez learned of the "release" of the gates a couple of days ago a friend who could access the Internet in a hotel in Havana. "It was a surprise because these three years we reviewed every week to see if there was luck, but when we introduced the URL will appear a blank page," he said.
The well-known dissident know the reasons why the Castro regime has decided to allow access to these portals. However, does not rule in question "some short-term" for the celebration of the XIV International Conference and Fair Informática 2011, in Havana, involving people from various countries.
If it is a permanent decision, Sanchez says that "there is nothing to thank" the Castro government for lifting the "siege of censorship" because it is a "right" of the population and the opposition "express" . Cuba considers bloggers Sánchez and others critical of the revolution as "cibermercenarios" serving the U.S.
and other political enemies. This was relevant again this week with the leak in Internet video of a lecture in which he harangued technical expert Cuban security about the need to fight the "enemy" bloggers. Despite this hostile attitude toward online social movements, Cuban Vice Minister of Communications, Jorge Luis Perdomo, has said this week that the Government did not see "any political obstacle" to open the Network access to the population and that there is "total willingness" to further develop the telecommunications sector in the Caribbean island.
According to official figures, Cuba had 1.6 million Internet users in 2009, resulting in 14.2 per hundred inhabitants. But most do not have full Internet access, but the mail and intranet pages selected by the Government. The Castro regime connectivity limitations attributed to the trade embargo maintained by the United States for half a century, which forced him to use a satellite link slow and expensive than a physical connection.
All this could change after this week when a fiber optic cable of 1,600 km connecting to Cuba with its ally Venezuela, multiplying by 3,000 the data transmission rate of the island.
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