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Time to Bring Cuba Online (nytimes.com)
19 points by hvo on Dec 1, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


This guy tried to get Cuba online and got five years in jail: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/last-prisoner-cuba-alan-gross-60...


Right. A USian, who would be reasonably presumed to have, um, connections with the US Government, that had imposed trade embargos on Cuba for.. um 50 years... Attempting sedition... from a country that has been activily hostile for 50 years. Furthermore the US had a travel ban to Cuba at the time -- he could NOT have been a tourist.

I guess that after 40 years of a trade embargo, allow "humanitarian" exports is a thing -- Thanks, Clinton.

I am not sure that Internet is a humanitarian export. That point could be argued.

With the claim that the Cubans doing the incoming inspection SHOULD have known what the embargoed equipment was... having never seen it. They wouldn't have known what a fuel injector was!

That was a prime example of USian arrogance. Good for him he got out in 5 years.


There will be - once they finish importing a giant firewall from China.


Yes.It is time for Cubans to have access to internet.


Cuba will be connected to Verizon DC in Florida.




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