Cuban Blogger Honored for Efforts to Confront Censorship and Promote Freedom of Speech

April 23, 2014 CHICAGO – Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogger who provides an unfiltered chronicle of daily life on the communist island, will visit Chicago the week of June 9 to 13 to be honored as The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ 2014 Gus Hart Visiting Fellow. She will meet with Chicago’s civic, business, media, and technology leaders and will deliver the Council’s 13th annual Gus Hart Lecture, "Cuba Uncensored ," on the evening of June 12.A citizen journalist, Sánchez writes for her blog — Generación Y