The Socialist Paradise That Hates Social Media

Breaking the stranglehold on communication & Information from the paranoid Castro regime will be a key element for fomenting popular revolts across Cuba.

Inventing a connection to a Hughes Net Satellite with an umbrella antenna above serves both as conduit & symbol for the Ingenuity & resolve ordinary Cubans have for getting news from the Island and the outside world.

But these makeshift antennas are routinely destroyed by units of ETESCA the Cuban regime's telephone and communication company and hundreds of average Cubans get jail terms simply for wanting more Information.

Freedom of expression and Information by any means of communication available is protected under article 19 of the Declaration of Universal Human Rights.

That means blocking freedom of expression & Information In Cuba equals no face book, blogger, blogtalkradio and twitter to It's citizens.

Counter Intuitively Cuba Is the socialist paradise that hates social media.

But Cubans are blockaded from the Internet not by an embargo but by an Intransigent and entrenched terrorist anti government fearful of sudden change bought on  from bloggers & face bookers organizing gatherings for popular uprisings In public defiance of the regime.

In Fact less than 10% out of a population of 11 million  has access to the Internet. This Is lower than post earthquake Haiti or the Congo.

A virtual Information blockade against the Cuban people

A recent fiber optics Internet cable link from Venezuela reached Cuba earlier this month Feb, and Is forecast to be operational right In time for hurricane season 2011.

Before this fiber optics link Cuba was the last & only nation of 38 In the Western Hemisphere to not have one.

Last In Internet but first In fantasy.

A striking DIFFERENCE for a nation that before Castro was a leader In the cutting edge social media of the day - television, telephone, radio and the printed press.

Today after 52 years of Castro Dictatorship; the longest such rule In the world 23 more years than Mubarak 11 more the Qadaffi, In Cuba 'No Hay Nada'  except for Fidel.

Cubans must continue finding  ways around an aging and ossifying regime In the ongoing and crucial Information war for Cuba's freedom.. More In Spanish From Secretos de Cuba