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Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber
lpress writes: Two Cuban universities have fiber links and fiber connections will be available to all Cuban universities in January 2016. One of the currently connected universities is in the west, near Havana (satellite ground station) and one in the east, near the undersea cable landing. Cuba will use Chinese equipment for DSL to the home and Wifi access points.
It may have only resulted in a nicer palace for Castro, but the embargo on Cuban tobacco helped make the country poor. We'll never know what they would have done with the money. The evil of the US trumped the evil of Castro.
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I'm guessing equipment purchased on the used market. Cuba's still pretty poor right now. Thanks to Castro and his little shit-fit revolution, he drove that nation into the ground via COMMUNISM! And no, Cuba's survival didn't depend on trading with America; or the lack of in this case. The financial wounds were self-inflicted by Cuba for Cuba. It truly is a sad story and need not have happened.
You are trolling. Take the deeply held beliefs of the GOP+Tea Party and shout them from the roof top in a relatively liberal heavy crowd like slashdot and watch the sparks fly. At least it's a clever troll I'll give you that so I'll bite. Can some GOP voting admirer of the Cuba embargo please tell me what is the purpose of maintaining it 30 years after the end of the cold war? Do yoy really think the Cubans yearn to have the Batista elite that fled to Miami back? Rest assured that most of them don't. I've been there and my impression was that Cubans may want a better life but they don't want their island to bcome America's whorehouse again. You can try to tell me the Castros are a cruel dictatorship that killed a bunch of people and you'd me right. But then so are some of the USA's most trusted friends aroud the world who have regularly been recieved in the White House for decades with open arms by Democrat and Republican presidents alike. The Cuba embargo is a stupid anachronism, all it does in make an international laughing stock out of GOP senators and leaders who block the lifting of the Cuba embargo. This is especially true since at the same time these politicians are maintaining the embargo they are whoring for favors with Saudi oil princes who are functionaries in an athoritarian theocracy and some of whom financed the Iraq insurgency and are now bankrolling ISIL.
You weren't there. That "shitfit" was kicking out Batista, a murderous, corrupt Mafia collaborating drug and gambling and crime cartel with rightwing death squads, right on the US doorstep. Great place to go for richer US tourists to spend money and buy prostitutes and drugs, pretty good place if you were rich and friendly with the government, bad, bad place to be poor. It was "trickle down economics" at its worst.
Castro refused to cooperate with the mafia, or with US cold war imperial policy, and refused to return the property and factories his government nationalized. Then the US tried to invade the country, and failed miserably.So that little "shitfit revolution" played the Russians off against the USA, successfully, for over *30 years* and kept their economy afloat and played political judo with the Western world.
Now? They're still surviving and making do. They're quite poor, mainly because the first round of Cuban expatriates in Miami have blocked every reconciliation attempt since the 1960's, and so has the US sugar and tobacco industries, which benefit profoundly from the lack of competition.