It seems that unconfirmed reports from Cuba indicate that Castro's mignons have banned acces to Babalu blog, written from Florida and publishing quite regularly really interesting information about Cuban reality that does not make the front page of Granma. I say unconfirmed because obviously Castro's mignons would never acknowledge that they are banning anything or anyone even though their Gulags have seen recent increase in attendance. But I have no problem believing this banning: Cuba has no free press, not even significant variety of controlled press since Granma is pretty much it; Castro has publicly said that Internet was the work of the devil; Cubans need permits to access a computer/printer/Internet-access; etc...
So, I think that I can congratulate heartily Val for an outstanding job, to get in the barbs of an old senile tyrant that should have better things to do but to have blogs cut off. May the ratings be with you Val (and may you never have to help Venezuelan bloggers set up shop in exile).
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