{"id":33775,"date":"2013-04-03T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33775"},"modified":"2013-04-03T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:16:05","slug":"internet-bringing-democracy-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/internet-bringing-democracy-to-cuba","title":{"rendered":"Internet Bringing Democracy To Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33776\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33776\" title=\"Yoani-sanchez\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oani-sanchez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oani-sanchez.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oani-sanchez-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoani Sanchez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MIAMI, USA &#8212; Cuban blogger and independent journalist Yoani Sanchez said, despite restrictions on cyberspace in Cuba, the internet is changing the communist country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The virtual Cuba is influencing, directly and definitively, the real Cuba,&#8221; she said during a lecture at Florida International University in Miami, after recounting a story about how Cubans, using text messages on the government-controlled cell phone network, were able to mobilize hurricane relief for the Oriente area of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The internet is helping us explain to the world what is happening inside our country,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez addressed an audience of 500 on the restrictions the Cuban government places on free expression, including internet access, and the impact of technology on the possible democratization of Cuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban blogger and independent journalist Yoani Sanchez said, despite restrictions on cyberspace in Cuba, the internet is changing the communist country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84,40,69],"class_list":["post-33775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-cuba","tag-government","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}