Castro daughter, dissident blogger clash on Twitter

[SandraJane]

Castro daughter, dissident blogger clash on Twitter


By Jeff Franks; HAVANA | Tue Nov 8, 2011 8:56pm EST


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/09/us-cuba-twitter-castro-idUSTRE7A806Y20111109?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews





(Reuters) - Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba Tuesday when Cuban President Raul Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.

Mariela Castro called Sanchez and her compatriots "despicable parasites" in a brief exchange that may have been the first direct confrontation, verbal or otherwise, between dissidents and a member of the Castro family after years of mutual animosity.

"When will we Cubans be able to come out of other closets?" she asked, alluding to Mariela Castro's championing of gay rights as head of Cuba's National Center for Sex Education

[Joelene9]

  Sounds like Raul's pampered princess. "Despicable parasites: did you receive the order from your employers to respond to me in unison and with the same predetermined script? Be creative," she said.
  In unison!  Hmm.  Same predetermined script?  Situation in Cuba is same-o, same-o.  The Castros are the proletarian elite!
  Joelene