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Tickets Available For Yoani Sanchez Appearance In Miami

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – When Cuban dissident blogger makes her way to South Florida next month, she's scheduled to speak at Miami Dade College's Freedom Tower.

Free tickets for the April 1st event are available through the end of the week on a first come-first serve basis. There is a limit of two tickets per person. The presentation will be in Spanish.

The tickets are available the Miami Dade Colleges' Wolfson, Kendall, InterAmerican and Hialeah campuses.

Wolfson Campus
Office of The Center for Literature and Theater
Building 4
300 NE 2nd Avenue

Kendall Campus
Building R – 1st Floor Lobby
11011 SW 104th Street

InterAmerican Campus
Building 1 – Student Life Area
627 SW 27th Avenue

Hialeah Campus
Building 1780
1780 W 49th Street

Sanchez has been a harsh and vocal critic of the Castro regime and was only recently allowed to leave the island. Sanchez said she was refused an exit permit for years because of her high-profile and harsh criticism of the government. I

In January, Cuba ended its unpopular policy of requiring citizens to obtain a letter of invitation and an exit permit before they were able to leave the country.

Sanchez said her ability to travel won't temper her criticism of brothers Fidel and Raul Castro.

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