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Another year has passed and we are now remembering the seventh anniversary of the Black Spring. After seven years, have there been any changes? Yes and no. Law 88, a provision calling for the protection of Cuba’s national independence, is still in force. Known as the gag law, it is used to silence Cuban citizens, most notoriously in the cases of dozens of dissidents and journalists jailed for expressing their ideas freely in 2003.
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Laritza Diversent
Laritza Diversent, a lawyer and prominent Cuban blogger, is a contributor to the CPJ Blog.At the end of the
1990s, Cuban dissidents sought out different media to disseminate the reality
of the island. Reports on violations by a government that proclaims itself a
human rights’ defender begin to circulate around the world, damaging the image
that the socialist state wants to project to the rest of the world. This is how
a movement of independent journalists is born on the island.
Why write a blog? My
reasons might not be convincing, but to me, they are enough. The most important
paper in my country is Granma, the official
organ of the Communist Party in
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