Reply #13: "She was not allowed to travel to a bloggers workshop." Not true.

[Billy Burnett]

She and her husband were advised not to. They weren't banned from it. They have been made aware of the danger of associating with groups working to overthrow the system of government in Cuba. Yoani herself has dissed these foreign operators and the Cuban groups that work at their behest. As the OP article indicates, the bloggers meeting wasn't being busted up, and they were going to meet close by elsewhere. It's interesting that government officials would give some of them advanced warning instead of entrapping them. Seems as though the government doesn't want Yoani to get involved with foreign funded traitorous groups that would contaminate her otherwise principled stances and her blogsite.

Also of note in the OP article (bold = mine)...

Sanchez wrote that police told her, "We want to warn you that you have transgressed all the limits of tolerance with your closeness and contact with elements of the counterrevolution."

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The gathering was supposed to involve about 20 bloggers and is being organized by Dagoberto Valdes, a Roman Catholic layman in Pinar del Rio. Valdes was the volunteer director of the church magazine Vitral, which gently called for more plurality and democratic participation, until he was removed from the post by the island's bishop in April 2007.

Anyone familiar with the goings on in Cuba are aware that the US government, Miami exile groups connected with terrorists, some representatives of the the Czech gov (a conduit for US/exile anti Cuba activity), and certain elements of the Catholic church, are collectively generally referred to as "elements of the counterrevolution". Elements of the counterrevolution are foreign funded groups working to overthrow the system of government in Cuba - activity that would be considered traitorous in most any nation, including the US. Dagoberto Valdes was removed from his post because his involvement with these groups by the Church, not by the government.