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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: greenspirit who wrote (6487)5/28/2000 3:11:00 AM
From: chalu2  Read Replies (3) of 9127
 
>>Going on the internet (if one had the capability) is probably met with a death penalty in Cuba. How sad for their people to be controlled by an insecure tyrant for so long.<<

Without getting into the "who loves/hates Castro" debate again, Cuba actually has entered the Internet age, and using the Internet does not result in the "death penalty."

Cuba has a portal about Cuba (it's no AOL, but we're talking Cuba here). It's at: www3.cuba.cu

Services, businesses etc. have started to list themselves on the Internet there, too. Not many yet, but they are at: paginasamarillas.cu (that translates to "yellow pages").

Cubans can send free faxes all over the world. They can access this service at: www-fax.cuba.cu

In the yellow pages site, there is a frequently asked questions section. One of the sections contains this question and answer:

Qu‚ gana mi instituci¢n al formar parte de las P ginas Amarillas de CENIAInternet?

Su instituci¢n gana visibilidad al poder ser contactada por los millones de usuarios que hoy forman la red Internet.

Translation:

Question: What does my company have to gain from a listing in the Internet yellow pages?

Answer: Your company gains visibility so that it can do business with the million of users who today are on the world wide web.

Sorry, no death penalty for using the Internet in Cuba. It's encouraged, actually, as you can see. You must be mistaking Cuba for staunch U.S. ally Saudi Arabia.
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