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Havana Real: One Woman Fights To Tell The Truth About Cuba Today (2011)

by Yoani Sánchez(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1935554255 (ISBN13: 9781935554257)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Melville House

review 1: I wasn't sure if I would like this book but I did find it interesting. This book is blog entries from Yoani Sanchez, a Cuban determined to tell the outside world what life is like in her country. The limitations and deprivation are heart breaking but she is determined to hope for change. The posts are from 2007-2010. She sneaks into hotels pretending to be a tourist to post the blogs and is unable to read any comments from readers due to Internet censorship.
review 2: I've been to Cuba four times. The first time I went wearing the rose-colored glasses of a progressive who believes in socialist principles and I was ready to defend Cuba against any and all criticisms, especially by any of my fellow Americans. By my forth visit my rose colored glasses had fa... morellen off and I was actively participating in helping a Cuban friend find a way to escape what he called "the island prison". I still believe in socialism, but now I am careful to add "democratic" in front of the word socialism. While I still defend some of the triumphs of the revolution and I'm always ready to dispel right-wing distortions about life in Cuba, I can no longer deny that Cuba is anything but an authoritarian police state. I saw too many people's lives truncated and diminished by the paranoid Cuban state security apparatus. Yoani Sanchez captures the quiet despair, the hardships, repressions and absurdities that Cubans must endure every day. She is a true Cuban patriot who speaks truth before power. I long for the day when the best of the Cuban revolution evolves to include freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom to travel. less

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