Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09HAVANA695
2009-11-18 18:21:00
CONFIDENTIAL
US Interests Section Havana
Cable title:
BLOGGER THRILLED WITH POTUS RESPONSE TO HER Q&AS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L HAVANA 000695
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CCA RZUNIGA AND WHA/PD MLEE
NSC FOR WHD EGRAY
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2019
TAGS: PREL PHUM PGOV CU
SUBJECT: BLOGGER THRILLED WITH POTUS RESPONSE TO HER Q&AS
REF: A. A) HAVANA 527 ("QUESTIONS FROM YOANI SANCHEZ TO
POTUS")
B. B) BLOGGERS BEATEN BUT NOT DETERRED (HAVANA 684)
C. C) NSC-USINT EMAIL OF 11/12/2009 AND
USINT-WHA/CCA OF 11/17/2009
Classified By: Principal Office Jonathan Farrar for reasons 1.4 (b) and
(d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L HAVANA 000695
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CCA RZUNIGA AND WHA/PD MLEE
NSC FOR WHD EGRAY
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2019
TAGS: PREL PHUM PGOV CU
SUBJECT: BLOGGER THRILLED WITH POTUS RESPONSE TO HER Q&AS
REF: A. A) HAVANA 527 ("QUESTIONS FROM YOANI SANCHEZ TO
POTUS")
B. B) BLOGGERS BEATEN BUT NOT DETERRED (HAVANA 684)
C. C) NSC-USINT EMAIL OF 11/12/2009 AND
USINT-WHA/CCA OF 11/17/2009
Classified By: Principal Office Jonathan Farrar for reasons 1.4 (b) and
(d)
1. (C) USINT Poloffs delivered on November 18, 2009 President
Obama's responses to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez's questions
on Cuba - U.S. relations (REF A). Last August, Sanchez had
posed seven questions to POTUS and seven for Cuban President
Raul Castro (the two sets were different). She was not
expecting an answer from the latter, because she confided
that she had never sent them to the Cuban President, and,
from her ebullient reaction, she was not expecting a reply
from President Obama either.
2. (C) Sanchez was thrilled with the fact that she had gotten
a response, asking us: "You're not kidding, right? This is
for real?" Sanchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, said that
she would like to post the original questions first, and then
follow up with the responses (REF B). She originally said
that she would probably post the answers mid-week on
Thanksgiving week, but was considering posting them earlier
as we left her house. Her blog is
ww.desdecuba.com/generaciony
3. (SBU) USINT gave Sanchez the original set in English and a
Spanish translation (REF C).
FARRAR
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CCA RZUNIGA AND WHA/PD MLEE
NSC FOR WHD EGRAY
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2019
TAGS: PREL PHUM PGOV CU
SUBJECT: BLOGGER THRILLED WITH POTUS RESPONSE TO HER Q&AS
REF: A. A) HAVANA 527 ("QUESTIONS FROM YOANI SANCHEZ TO
POTUS")
B. B) BLOGGERS BEATEN BUT NOT DETERRED (HAVANA 684)
C. C) NSC-USINT EMAIL OF 11/12/2009 AND
USINT-WHA/CCA OF 11/17/2009
Classified By: Principal Office Jonathan Farrar for reasons 1.4 (b) and
(d)
1. (C) USINT Poloffs delivered on November 18, 2009 President
Obama's responses to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez's questions
on Cuba - U.S. relations (REF A). Last August, Sanchez had
posed seven questions to POTUS and seven for Cuban President
Raul Castro (the two sets were different). She was not
expecting an answer from the latter, because she confided
that she had never sent them to the Cuban President, and,
from her ebullient reaction, she was not expecting a reply
from President Obama either.
2. (C) Sanchez was thrilled with the fact that she had gotten
a response, asking us: "You're not kidding, right? This is
for real?" Sanchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, said that
she would like to post the original questions first, and then
follow up with the responses (REF B). She originally said
that she would probably post the answers mid-week on
Thanksgiving week, but was considering posting them earlier
as we left her house. Her blog is
ww.desdecuba.com/generaciony
3. (SBU) USINT gave Sanchez the original set in English and a
Spanish translation (REF C).
FARRAR