Cuban Blogger Denied US Visa
Written byRaphael Tsavkko Garcia
Cuban blogger, teacher and GV author Elaine Díaz Rodríguez was denied a visa to enter the US [pt] Wednesday, April 3, 2013, preventing her from participating in the International Congress of Latin-American Studies. Brazilian journalist Alex Haubrich reported Elaine's frustration with and criticism of the US government's criteria.
Written byRaphael Tsavkko Garcia
12 comments
Though I’ve never heard of this author and never read her blog, my guess is she isn’t as hostile and combative toward the Cuban government as that better-known and better-promoted blogger who’s currently touring the United States of America. This blogger and and I have 25 mutual Facebook “friends,” so that should pretty much settle her fate.
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
You are a pro-Castro propagandist, Walter.
She is a professor of the “communication” faculty of the university in Havana and was a journalist in Cuba. You work for the official paper Granma. That should indeed create a lot of connections.
She ran a pro-regime blog until she closed it. She participated in state security TV programs like “Cuba’s reasons”. She did fall out with the regime and closed her blog in August 22, 2012.
She had posted some very polite criticism of the regime (customs rules,) even calling not to vote for those that approved it. Then the blog ended …..
Strange that you claim you “never heard” of her as she is mentioned in 10 posts on your “archive”;
groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/msearch?query=”Elaine+Diaz”
The group with the better information (lots of it not allowed on your site) has even 27:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=%22Elaine+Diaz%22
You just have to look in the right places for good information on Cuba, Walter.
With over 135,000 items in the archives, I see I’ve forgotten a few. It’s good to see that the archives are being utilized.
I wasn’t aware that I had a job at Granma! That would be difficult since most of my life I live here in Los Angeles, California.
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
I am sorry, aren’t you translating for them? Haven’t some of your articles , edited pieces and translations appeared there (and other Cuban news organizations)?
See:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/news-i/27nov-Palestinian-ambassador.html
http://www.granmai.cubasi.cu/ingles/cuba-i/16-noviembre-bruno-discurso.html
http://www.trabajadores.cu/news/20121114/2513271-another-weapon-against-blockade
Haven’t you also stated in the past that you spend part of the year in Havana?
Just one example:
http://www.walterlippmann.com/Letter-from-Havana-1-12-2003.html
By the way: this one refusal of a visa to a Cuban journalist seems to bother you. How come the frequent refusals of visas and expulsions of foreign journalists in Cuba doesn’t bother you that much?
A large part of your life is in Havana. You said so yourself.
Stop pretending. You aren’t fooling anyone.
From Yoani Sanchez blog:posted by you on January 21st, 2008 at 20:47
“I saw those articles you mention here,
and yes, you’re right that Cuba’s media seems to be obsessed with the
island’s history. I just came back to the U.S. after spending three
months down there (actually, only 88 days), and you’re right about
that.”
Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
(Disneylandia)
http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=45
This site has over twice as many news items from the Castro controlled press, Walter:
http://prensacubana.e-datalink.net/
Nearly 280,000
http://espaciodeelaine.wordpress.com/
Hi Walter,,, here is her blog. Our newblast this week (which will go out by COB today) includes an interview with her done by Global Voices before this news came out.
and on her blog one can see that she herself said- as Cubaqus correctly reported – that she was ending it.
http://espaciodeelaine.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/el-ultimo-post/
That is indeed very recent news as she just started up again in April.
Oh, and her blog IS active, not shut down like the dude below said.
Her blog was inactive from August 2012. She did announce it herself as the dude correctly said.
She posted one more in December stating:
“Tengo miedo de volver a escribir. Como tengo miedo de hablar en público.”
http://espaciodeelaine.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/israel-rojas-cantara-por-ti/
Only a couple of days ago she started posting again.
From the press on her Blog:
The Out-of-Date Updating
August 27, 2012
Alfredo Fernandez Rodriguez
HAVANA TIMES — Recently, I read with amazement about the news of Professor Elaine Diaz announcing the “farewell” of her blog.
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=77318
On her own blog she announced herself she stopped.
http://espaciodeelaine.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/el-ultimo-post/
Really the US Senator always do types of things if they like they will approve your visa if they not they will never do.Thanks for the post.
Genetic ID
Is this really the kind of country we are? I could understand if there was a legitimate reason for it. I wish she went into more depth in this post about why she was denied a US Visa. If she did then we would know more of why and how this all happened.At my blog http://motorcyclediarieshumanities.blogspot.com/ we go in depth to make connection about the motorcycle diaries and Latin America.