The power of "Y"

The thugs who run Cuba have a problem with anything that represents freedom.

Such as the letter "Y."

Cuban independent journalist José Manuel Caraballo Bravo, writing in English, explains:

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 regime 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, 32, 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".