{{Boisterous protesters backing the Cuban government blocked the Monday screening of a documentary featuring Cuba’s best-known dissident, the blogger Yoani Sanchez, who was in attendance after being allowed to leave the communist island for the first time in nearly a decade.}}<\/p>\n
Small groups of protesters met Sanchez when she arrived earlier Monday at two airports in Brazil’s northeast. <\/p>\n
They called her a “mercenary” who was being financed by the CIA and tossed photocopied U.S. dollar bills her way. One protester got close enough to pull her hair.<\/p>\n
Sanchez was also met by supporters and throughout the day in Tweets and a blog posting expressed her joy at being in Brazil, the first stop on her 80-day tour of about a dozen nations.<\/p>\n
Yet at the evening screening in a museum, about four dozen protesters surrounded her the moment she walked through the door, shouting “Cuba yes! Yankees no!” and forcing security guards to evacuate her to a nearby room.<\/p>\n
“I was expecting it, even before leaving Cuba I knew this could happen,” Sanchez told media minutes later inside the room where she was taken for protection. <\/p>\n
“It’s sad because I’ve been waiting one year for this, I really wanted to see (the) film.”<\/p>\n
About an hour after being taken out of the screening room, Sanchez, accompanied by Brazilian Sen. Eduardo Suplicy, went to speak to the crowd, both protesters and supporters.<\/p>\n
“After remaining silent for a long time, after living in a society where not speaking up was the option of the majority of my countrymen, after so much silence, one fine day I couldn’t take it anymore and I started a blog,” she told those gathered, some who cheered, some who booed.<\/p>\n
Sanchez stayed with the crowd for about 45 minutes, then left the venue.<\/p>\n
Readmore…http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pro-cuba-protesters-halt-dissidents-brazil-event-015748949.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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