The Cuban Memory Stick Underground

circletimessquare writes "The NyTimes has an aticle describing how students and others in Cuba have taken to passing around media on memory sticks, as this is the only way they can get around state-controlled media. Also driving this phenomenon is the fact that there are so few places to get on the Internet. In Old Havana there is only one Internet cafe; getting online there for an hour costs 1/3 of the average Cuban's monthly wages. Local entrepreneurs get the memory sticks from European friends, since they are scarce to find in Cuba through normal channels, and expensive."

Comments

European friends

[Midnight Thunder]

I suppose European friends are the way to go, but in general non-USA friends. I am not sure which would be worse for a USA citizen, being discovered that you are subverting state censorship or being discovered by your government that you have been to Cuba.

Re:Want to bring down the Cuban government?

[Notquitecajun]

Had they not been screwed over by JFK and actually had a decent landing area, operational security, good intelligence, air cover, and everything else needed for a good invasion, it would have worked. NOTHING was done right on the Bay of Pigs invasion. NOTHING.

Re:Must be evil capitalist counterrevolutionaries

[Just Another Poster]

But they are still an improvement over the dictator they replaced.

Communist dictators generally murder between 10 and 1000 times as many people as non-communist dictators. Castro is no exception to the rule.