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Saturday, May 10, 2008

BRIEF COMMENTS ABOUT A GOVERNMET WHO IS ALLERGIC TO THE "Y"

BRIEF COMMENTS ABOUT A GOVERNMET WHO IS ALLERGIC TO THE "Y"
2008-05-10.
José Manuel Caraballo Bravo, Agencia de Prensa Libre Avileña, APLA,
Corresponsalía en Ciego de Ávila de Misceláneas de Cuba

Here, in a small island of the Caribbean Sea, there is a totalitarian
government who is allergic to the letter "Y". Most of the inhabitants of
this planet have free access to the internet; the only thing one should
do is to pay. In Cuba the access to "Yahoo" is forbidden to the Cubans
(first comment on the "Y").

This regimen year after year tells their people that the enemy is about
to invade the country. This assumed enemy is named "the Yankees" (second
comment on the "Y").

In the government's cupola all the members are old persons, the "Young
people" is far away from the power (third comment on the "Y").

After the historic visit of the Pope John Paul II in 1998, every
December 24th is a holiday; but the word Yule (also Christmas) is not
mentioned by the authorities, even the Communist Party -the unique &
governing party- sends an internal message to the commercial centers
which reads: "Prohibited to make reference to Yuletide (Christmas
season)" (fourth comment on the "Y").

And now, in order to finish, the last and newest comment on the letter
"Y": A young Cuban blogger who uses cyberspace to voice sharp criticism
of the Havana government won the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Prize (
awarded by Spain's top-selling newspaper, El Pais) in digital journalism
for creating a blog called "Generation Y," which gets more than 1
million hits a month, mostly from abroad; but Cuban authorities have
refused to give a travel visa to Yoani Sanchez, 22, who was to have
flown to Spain to receive a top journalism award, the writer told AFP
Tuesday.

Up to here the brief comments of a totalitarian government who is
allergic to the "Yahoo", "Yankees", "Young people", "Yuletide", and the
"Generation Y created by Yoani". If you'd like more information try to
ask someone from the government for the reason; but be careful because
WHY ends in a "Y".

http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=15262

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