Cuba USA
- The New York Times Cannot Ignore Cuba
by Omar Pérez Salomónsource Pupila Insomnetransaltion Cuba -Network in Defense of Humanity Everything seems to indicate that the time has come to move The New York Times piece in the chessboard planned and organized from Washington to attack and give...
- Cuba And The Internet Who Is Blockading Whom?
by Atilio Boronsource Rebelion The nervousness which has gripped the Latin American right after the announcement of the"normalization" of relations between the US and Cuba has sparked a series of demonstrationsthat astonish because of the impunity with...
- Ny Times Editorial On The Internet In Cuba
The New York Times has published an editorial call to "bring Cuba online." they say "millions of Cuban citizens could have affordable access to the Internet in a matter of months" if only the government were willing to allow Google to go forward with...
- If You Are Reading This, You Are Probably Not In Cuba.
I've been involved in a conversation about content blocking in Cuba recently. The discussion began with this screen shot -- a notice that my blog could not be found at a Nauta access room in Cuba: I asked around and found one private home where my...
- Could Google Provide Internet Access In Cuba?
The obstacles are political, not technical Eric Schmidt and other Google executives traveled to Cuba where they met with members of the Internet community and the government. Google is providing Internet access in a few US Cities and is considering others...
Cuba USA
“Cuba does not allow free access to Internet” If this were true, why spent 70 million dollars for a fiber optic cable running from Venezuela
By Jose Manzaneda Source: La Pupila Insomne “Executives of Google visit Cuba to promote access to Internet” or Google president visits Cuba to promote ‘free and open Internet’ are headlines of the international press with a unanimous message: the Cuban government censures Internet and imposes an arbitrary low connectivity.  This message is repeated as nauseam: “Cuba does not allow free access to Internet” we read in El Financiero; “connectivity (to Internet) is still prohibited by censure (in Cuba)” reports the Spanish daily El Pais that assures that “for the regime of Havana, Internet and the freedom that it represents is an enemy that should be kept apart from the citizens”. But if this were true, why has the Cuban government spent 70 million dollars for a fiber optic cable running from Venezuela. For whom are the 120 computer navigation halls in the country ? Why have almost 5 000 students received scholarships to study in the University of Computer Sciences ? We should recall that until 2013 when the cable from Venezuela became operable, the connection had been much slower and deficient than today. Since Cuba could not access the rings of the optic fiber controlled by U.S. companies. In spite of the improvement Cuba needs a millionaire investment in internal technological infrastructure to achieve a significant speed of navigation and increase points of connection. Directors of the Cuban telephone company, ETECSA, assure that the current connection to Internet, still slow and more expensive, will gradually increase through new investments. The objectives, far from restricting access – will bring closer the access to Internet to the homes. The media, however, prefer to deceive their readers with the worst plots of spy films “in systems controlled by the State (like in Cuba) instructing to click in the wrong space could lead to serious consequences” we read in El Pais. But the blockade of the U.S. not only affects Internet connection in Cuba. It also forbids access to the services of Google. When attempting to gain access from Cuba to some of them a message appears that says “this product is not available for your country”. This occurs when trying gain access, for example, to Google Analytics, to Google Earth, to Google Voice and Video, to parts of the Gmail service, to the navigator Chrome or trying to download applications of the Android system. But for the media this is – a provable and objective reality – a simple accusation of the Cuban government. “Havana – we read in the Spanish daily, El Mundo – has accused U.S. authorities of blocking (…) some Google products. Documents published by WikiLeaks reveals that Google works closely with the Department of State in its policy “of a change of regime” in countries that are uncomfortable for the United States. Something that Cuba, of course, is well aware. In any case the visit has had a clear positive result. Upon his return the President of the company, Eric Schmidt not only calls for lifting the blockade of the Island. Also, he describes “the Cuban people as modern and very well educated” and emphasized that the two largest successes of the Revolution (…) are the universal and free health care (…) with good doctors and a majority of women in executive positions (…) in the country”. His words, of course, can only be read in his personal blog … and the Cuban press. In the large media, not one word. In a recent visit to Havana, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano narrates his experience trying to connect to certain webs in the U.S.: “Trying heroically to connect to Internet in the hotel (in Havana) I have collided with one of these forms of blockade, the blockade of communications that is rarely mentioned but is very important. I have come across this post that says “You want to enter a ‘forbidden country’ or ‘You want to enter a country that is forbidden. I thought: how proud I am to be almost a compatriot of the inhabitants of this forbidden country? Translation by the Network in Defense of Humanity-Cuba |
- The New York Times Cannot Ignore Cuba
by Omar Pérez Salomónsource Pupila Insomnetransaltion Cuba -Network in Defense of Humanity Everything seems to indicate that the time has come to move The New York Times piece in the chessboard planned and organized from Washington to attack and give...
- Cuba And The Internet Who Is Blockading Whom?
by Atilio Boronsource Rebelion The nervousness which has gripped the Latin American right after the announcement of the"normalization" of relations between the US and Cuba has sparked a series of demonstrationsthat astonish because of the impunity with...
- Ny Times Editorial On The Internet In Cuba
The New York Times has published an editorial call to "bring Cuba online." they say "millions of Cuban citizens could have affordable access to the Internet in a matter of months" if only the government were willing to allow Google to go forward with...
- If You Are Reading This, You Are Probably Not In Cuba.
I've been involved in a conversation about content blocking in Cuba recently. The discussion began with this screen shot -- a notice that my blog could not be found at a Nauta access room in Cuba: I asked around and found one private home where my...
- Could Google Provide Internet Access In Cuba?
The obstacles are political, not technical Eric Schmidt and other Google executives traveled to Cuba where they met with members of the Internet community and the government. Google is providing Internet access in a few US Cities and is considering others...