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[joshcryer]

39. She has answered these questions. Intermediaries.

Anyone can sign up for a Pay Pal account, it goes to her Gmail, but she certainly doesn't have "accounts" to use, someone else must have access to it (as it stands now the Pay Pal account cannot receive money, not sure how long that has been the case). It's possible that her account was locked for the reason that she's a Cuban.

Anyone can sign up for a GoDaddy account. The domain as it stands now is held by a company in DE, not a US company. She must have transferred the domain some time ago to avoid it getting taken (as if the US would take a dissident's domain, though).

Translations are facilitated by fans of Cuban bloggers, most of the translations are machine translated then cleaned up by speakers of the language. You don't need the CIA to do this.

Obama lifted direct donations to Cubans in 2010. This is when the Cuban blogosphere exploded. They have lists of phone numbers where you can directly recharge their phones with money abroad. The exile community is putting a lot of money into these bloggers (and as some bloggers say, some do it just for this reason, to get donations, and to get their phones recharged, etc).

Her Gmail account is still open, so why hasn't it been closed? Well, same reason hotmail accounts, wordpress account, blogger accounts aren't being closed, I suppose. The US isn't telling Google to close the accounts and Google might not do it anyway because it can claim that it's not making money on it (there are no ads on any of the blogger blogs).