Quote of the Month (Cuba's Cowards)

"Coward is the government that through its absolute power denies the rights of its citizens and condemns them to live in the material and spiritual poverty of slaves. Cowards are the servile oppressors, who supported by their limited, momentous and fragile impunity believe that tyrants will always spared from justice. Cowards are also those poor souls -- fortunately, those are the least in numbers -- who under the guise of dissatisfaction and incapable of shining in their own light, today operate as occasional allies of the regime screaming insults at Cuba's bloggers, in an effort to tarnish the civility and honesty of those that work with extraordinary sacrifice, more or less talent, and that extraordinary treasure that sadly appears to be so scarce: dignity."

- Miriam Celaya, Cuban blogger, from her portal Sin EVAsion (Without EVAsion), November 26th, 2009.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to fear of government repression, Celaya used to write under the pseudonym Eva. At the beginning of 2009, in an act of extraordinary courage and symbolism, she revealed her real name and even her state identity card. Thus the name of her blog, Without EVAsion.