Wednesday, November 09, 2011
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Raul Castro's daughter and an anti-government
blogger are mixing it up in Cuban cyberspace.
Mariela Castro opened a Twitter account and sent her first tweets
yesterday about her work as head of Cuba's National Sex Education
Center. She's an advocate of gay rights.
Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez fired the first Twitter salvos,
welcoming her to the social network and asking when Cubans "will be able
to come out of other closets."
Castro shot back that Sanchez ought to study up, saying Sanchez's
version of tolerance reinforces "the old mechanisms of power." She later
grumbled about tweets from unspecified "despicable parasites."
Cuba has a small but growing Twitter community despite the second-worst
Internet connectivity in the world.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Castro-s-daughter--blogger-in-Twitter-spat
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