which she couldn't show to the reporter. She attributed that to the "skill of her captors". When CNN's David Ariosto reported on the incident, after Sánchez was injured but before she met with the BBC reporter, Sánchez is shown in video footage with bruising and swelling around her left eye and bruising on her arm. The video report appeared on CNN Espanol on Monday, November 9, 2009. Questionnaire In 2009, Sánchez mailed seven questions to United States President Barack Obama. On November 18, 2009, Obama supposedly responded to these questions with a detailed expression of his support for the bloggers' work: The day after she received the unexpected answers from President Obama, Sánchez drafted seven questions for President Castro that she left with the council of state, supreme governing body for Cuba. According to documents revealed by Wikileaks, it was not Obama who answered the questionnaire sent by the blogger in 2009, but the United States Interests Section in Havana. 2012 arrest Sánchez and her husband were arrested on October 4, 2012, apparently in an attempt to prevent her from writing about the trial of conservative politician Ángel Carromero, who crashed a rental car, killing Oswaldo Payá. She was released a day later. 2013 trip With a change in the passport laws in January 2013, Sánchez was granted a Cuban passport enabling her to travel abroad. She had previously applied for an exit permit 20 times without success. On February 17, 2013, Sánchez traveled to more than twelve countries in Europe and The Americas, including Brazil and the United States, where, in Miami, she criticized the inadequacy of Cuba's reforms as well as the United States embargo against Cuba. She returned to Cuba on May 30. Awards In 2008, Sánchez was honored with awards that included Time magazine's "One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World", one of Foreign Policy magazine's "10 Most Influential Latin American Intellectuals" of the year, and the El País 2008 "Ortega y Gasset Prize for Digital Journalism". She was, as well, one of El País''' 2008 100 most notable Hispanoamericans, and one of Gatopardos 10 most influential people of 2008.Time magazine named Sánchez's blog, "Generation Y", one of the "25 Best Blogs of 2009". The World Economic Forum, yearly, selects a group of young global leaders of whom Sánchez was one, in 2009. In the summer of 2009, Sánchez was honored as one