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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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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.