It is often said that under a dictatorship, nothing is more counterrevolutionary than the truth itself. Perhaps that explains why the Cuban regime has never forgiven independent journalists for breaking the information monopoly it maintained for decades. This morning, the independent news outlet 14ymedio reported that its director, Yoani Sánchez, had been violently and arbitrarily detained by Cuba’s political police in Nuevo Vedado, Havana, at around 9:30 a.m. while going out to buy groceries.

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