DEMOCRACYDIGEST: “The coming ‘Cuban Spring’?”

You can tell that dissident blogger Yoani Sánchez is a trained philologist:

Precise attention to language is a hallmark of her conversation. Ms Sánchez puns that Cuba’s irregular Communist party congresses are “less a parley-ment than a listening-ment: there’s not been a single “No” vote in 50 years”.