Cuba USA
Aside from the punitive measures against Cuba are intact, in spite of the fact that Havana has been a place of pilgrimage of personalities that include senators, congress persons, officials, tradespersons and official delegations of all kinds have come from the United States.
- 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...
- Us Policy Toward Cuba Progresses ........with More Isolation
by Iroel Sánchezsource La Pupila Insomnetranslation Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity When on December 17 last year President Barack Obama achnowledged that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against the Cuba by the US has led...
- The Plans Of Google And Internet Access In Cuba
By: Omar Pérez Salomón Source: La Pupila Insomne Google-Cuba: The company that owns the Google label whose main product is the search motor with the same name plans to invest 1 billion dollars reported the Wall Street Journal last June 2. This investment...
- There Are New Winds Blowing About Cuba In Washington
By Jorge Wejebe Cobo Source: Cuba es Surtidor Former U.S, State Secretary writes, in her book, “Hard Choices” calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to lift the blockade against Cuba considering it counterproductive. The main argument that Clinton...
- Does Cuba Trust The Us (and Google)?
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Cuba USA
How ETECSA (Cuban Telecommunication Company) collaborates with the US Embassy
by Jorge Wejebe
Source El Surtidor
translation Cuba Network in Defense of Humanity
Last June a blog published “Along the Malecon” in 2016 for the House of Representatives of the US to approve a law allowing the sharing between the National Foundation for Democracy, the Department of State and the Agency for International Development, about 30 million dollars for the development of “democracy” in Cuba. Included are 17,5 million for programs of “freedom in Internet” and the expansion of free access to information in the Network.
Expected is that part of these funds were somehow for the US embassy in Havana. However it should function adjusted the practices of international rights in diplomatic relations between both countries. The statement was made by the State Secretary, John Kerry when inaugurating the embassy. But aside from dealing with difficult forecasts on the form and methods used by the US administration for expenditures, without clandestine or covert structures for this budget, it is more useful to evaluate what it really means.
The alleged purpose is to support development of the Network in the Island based on the concept of massive access to new technologies that would directly increase a defection by the people and, in that way, strengthen and organized the alleged opposition to the Revolution.
This doctrine again establishes their hopes for a social explosion in the country and changes favorable to the US through actions on its policy regarding the Island.
During the early years of the 60s the blockade was imposed to achieve hunger and desperation that would create an opposition in the country but without results for more than fifty years.
However, USAID and the State Department and other institutions continue their inertia with an additional boost in the context of a change of policy and consider that while networks of Wi-Fi, emails, cell phones, INTERNET sites for social and private use exist in Cuba the same consequences will by achieved instead of those persecuted by the blockade.
Following this logic, ETECSA and the Ministry of Communications are allied to the State Department and work to carry out a state policy to increase information and ever more access to the Network. Perhaps these institutions and their officials are better destinations for the millions of dollars assigned for this purpose of the US administration.
It could be supposed that the renewed strategies to use the novel carrot of information with the classical stick of the blockade to change the principles of Cuban society. They may have to wait another fifty years to realized how mistaken were their calculations.
- 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...
- Us Policy Toward Cuba Progresses ........with More Isolation
by Iroel Sánchezsource La Pupila Insomnetranslation Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity When on December 17 last year President Barack Obama achnowledged that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against the Cuba by the US has led...
- The Plans Of Google And Internet Access In Cuba
By: Omar Pérez Salomón Source: La Pupila Insomne Google-Cuba: The company that owns the Google label whose main product is the search motor with the same name plans to invest 1 billion dollars reported the Wall Street Journal last June 2. This investment...
- There Are New Winds Blowing About Cuba In Washington
By Jorge Wejebe Cobo Source: Cuba es Surtidor Former U.S, State Secretary writes, in her book, “Hard Choices” calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to lift the blockade against Cuba considering it counterproductive. The main argument that Clinton...
- Does Cuba Trust The Us (and Google)?
Will mistrust stop Google and other US Internet companies in Cuba? Trust? I've written posts speculating on what Google might do in Cuba and on the possibility of their providing Internet access, but have received consistent "no comment" from Google,...