HAVANA: Fledgling Cuban independent online newspaper 14ymedio yesterday published an interview with US Vice-President Joe Biden, who expressed hope that Havana’s economic reforms will be accompanied by greater “rights and freedoms.”
Biden was interviewed by dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, who last week launched the communist-ruled island’s first news outlet not controlled by the state in 50 years.
The website has since been intermittently blocked in Cuba, where readers were redirected to a site ridiculing Sanchez, casting cold water on hopes the government would tolerate an independent news presence.
Sanchez, who interviewed Biden in Washington several weeks ago, asked whether a new Cuban law loosening restrictions on foreign direct investment would spur any changes in US policy. AFP
