Of course there’s nothing at all surprising about this ….

HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban authorities have blocked access from Cuba to the country’s most-read blogger, Yoani Sanchez, she said on Monday.

Sanchez, whose critical “Generacion Y” blog received 1.2 million hits in February, said Cubans can no longer visit her Web page (http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/) and two other home-grown bloggers on the Web site on a server in Germany.

All they can see is a “error downloading” message.

“So the anonymous censors of our famished cyberspace have tried to shut me in a room, turn off the light and not let my friends in,” she wrote in her blog on Monday.

She’s found a way around the censorship for the time being. She’s been critical of Raul Castro on her blog and writes about everyday life in Cuba and the hardships of living under the Communist (’progressive’) regime.

“Who is the last in line for a toaster?” was the title of a recent blog that satirized the lifting of a ban on sales of computers, DVD players and other appliances Cubans long for, though toasters will not be freely sold until 2010.

Although internet access has been very limited in Cuba, a few bloggers have enjoyed being about to get around the strict government censorship of media outlets on the island nation.

The aim of government censors is to block readership in Cuba, where people have limited access to Internet, she said.

“They are admitting that no alternative way of thinking can exist in Cuba, but people will continue reading us somehow,” she said. “There is no censorship that can stop people who are determined to access the Internet,” she said.

I’m confused though. Don’t the progressives (aka communist) of our country just love the current Cuban form of government. I keep hearing how superior it is to ours. I keep hearing how they have a better medical care system, etc. Of course, the people who say that are almost exclusively well-to-do latte liberals who don’t have to live under the confines of a petty dictator. I’ve not seen a one of them actually move there.

The only people who think that living under a Communist (aka progressive) form of government is a good thing are people who have never lived under Communism and take their own freedoms completely and utterly for granted.