14ymedio – Neither the First nor the Last

14ymedio: Neither the First nor the Last
Posted on May 17, 2014

As Yoani Sanchez has already announced, midweek this coming week a new
digital medium, baptized 14ymedio, will see the light. We have the
intention to update it daily and, if possible, more than once a day.

When the Internet becomes, for Cubans, something simple and accessible
as it is for every other 21st Century Latin American, perhaps them we’ll
be on the list of favorites of housewives who want to make a dessert, of
entrepreneurs who want to know where to invest their money, or why not
to, of politicians who need to know the trends in public opinion.

Visiting us will be those who are looking to make plans to amuse
themselves on the weekend, and those who want to be up-to-date on the
latest theater offerings, the best concerts, the newest releases in the
bookstores.

We hope to be a reference for every Cubanologist who needs to check a
precise date or submerge themselves in the conceptual complexity of the
new social thinking, and a reference as well for the absent-minded
tourists hearing the name of the country for the first time in their
lives. A window into what is happening, our fingers on every pulse, the
re-visitor of history, a messenger from the future, all this is what we
want to be.

Just because most people will have Internet we won’t begin to be a
people without problems, and so 14ymedio proposes to be the voice of the
protestors, those persecuted by whatever power, and, most particularly,
the longed for space of all those who have a divergent or convergent
opinion but who lack a public platform where they can expound on it and
submit it for discussion.

Obviously these are long term intentions, but we are starting now
because we don’t want the new and inevitable realities that will come to
wait for us. In fact, we are not the first to have such ambitious
dreams, nor to work to conquer them. Hopefully we won’t be the last!

16 May 2014

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