The latest issue of FedEx’s Access Review magazine has my interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has irritated the island’s dictatorial regime with her blog Generación Y.
Yoani was recently awarded the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize by the Journalism School of Columbia University, but the Cuban government denied her permission to travel to New York to receive it. Needless to say, their childish retaliation has made her more powerful.
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José Simián (1975) is a New York-based bilingual marketer, content strategist and editor. His articles and columns on politics, media and culture have been published by the New York Daily News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated Latino, Billboard en Español, Latina, Qué Pasa, Etiqueta Negra, La Tercera and El Mercurio. He is also the host and producer of Contraportada, a weekly interview segment with Latino artists and intellectuals on 24-hour news cable station NY1 Noticias, and Executive Editor of Manero. Before becoming a writer, José worked as a lawyer (JD Universidad de Chile, 2002; LLM Columbia University, 2005) and taught Jurisprudence and Law and Literature in Chile. He lives in Brooklyn.
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The latest issue of FedEx’s Access Review magazine has my interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has irritated the island’s dictatorial regime with her blog Generación Y.
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