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Castro hits out at Cuban blogger guardian.co.uk Technology Thu, 06/19/2008 - 05:24 Fidel Castro has hit out at a popular Cuban blogger for undermining the communist regime and providing ammunition to its critics.

Death of a Philosopher At the turn of the century a young Spanish philosopher, home from the German universities, used to walk the stone terrace before the great Escorial palace proclaiming to himself: "I am I plus my circumstances." Looking up at granite reminde... Cancer 0

By: Tom Gjelten of NPR Time magazine last week named its picks for the 100 most influential people in the world. Raul Castro made the cut in 2007 as Cuba's acting president. This year, there's a different Cuban on the list. Yoani Sanchez, 32, has gained a worldwide following for the independent blog she writes from Havana.

Well, to no one's surprise, Cuba wouldn't relent and permit Yoani Sanchez to travel to Spain to receive the Ortega y Gasset prize, despite my post urging Raul Castro to permit her to go. AP reports: A Cuban woman who gained worldwide acclaim for a blog that offers stinging criticism of the Communist regime was honored Wednesday with a Spanish journalism award — in absentia.

   Wednesday night in Havana, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez read her speech accepting this year’s Ortega y Gasset prize for digital journalism to friends gathered in her apartment.  She was prevented from traveling to Spain to accept the prize in person by a regime which appears increasingly distressed

“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation” -Jose Ortega y Gasset Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish Philosopher (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955). This quote mirrors the one from yesterday by Jefferson. Again emphasizing that the fight for freedom is constant.