Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today

Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today by Sanchez, Yoani. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781935554257.

Shes been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. Shes a blogger, shes a Cuban, and shes a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life. For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.