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Blogs from Cuban prisons?

Pablo Pacheco is a journalist that was imprisoned in Cuba in 2003, and remains behind bars (his sentence is 20 years). Supposedly, he is able to dictate blog entries by phone to Claudia Cadelo, a friend, who posts them here.

The Huffington Post gave this blog attention today. It seems unbelievable that Pacheco would be able to maintain an online journal while in jail in a country where internet is scarcely available to those that have no run-ins with the police. I share it for that reason alone, not because I am privvy to any information beyond what is here. Further, I see no reason to doubt the Huffington Post and Yoani Sanchez, who relayed the blog.

 

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Melissa Lockhart Fortner

Melissa Lockhart Fortner is Senior External Affairs Officer at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, having served previously as Senior Programs Officer for the Council. From 2007-2009, she held a research position at the University of Southern California (USC) School of International Relations, where she closely followed economic and political developments in Mexico and in Cuba, and analyzed broader Latin American trends. Her research considered the rise and relative successes of Latin American multinationals (multilatinas); economic, social and political changes in Central America since the civil wars in the region; and Wal-Mart’s role in Latin America, among other topics. Melissa is a graduate of Pomona College, and currently resides in Pasadena, California, with her husband, Jeff Fortner.

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