March 21, 2005
No net for you.
I wonder why the castro government would have a problem with someone using their 100% literacy:
HAVANA, March 18 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) - Two dissidents were stopped last week by police officers after leaving the U.S. Interests Section where they had surfed the Interet.Ibrahim Pina Borges of the Nacional Christian Alliance said a police captain asked to see his identity card. Pina Borjes told the officer that this violated his human rights, but the agent replied he was just following orders.
Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, the Havana South delegate of the Marti Current, said two officers asked for his identity papers, which he refused to produce. When asked what he was doing at the Interests Section, he said he was studying journalism.
Posted by Val Prieto at March 21, 2005 06:21 AM
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I hope they were reading Babalublog!
Posted by: CB at March 21, 2005 06:48 AM
Maybe they'll get the same reward Dr. Biscet recieved for exercising his 100% literacy. Where are you now, Danny Glover and Alice Walker? Any comments?
Posted by: George L. Moneo at March 21, 2005 07:15 AM
100% literacy and no one gets to read.
100% rice cookers and no one gets rice.
100% free health care and not a single bandages.
Potemkin regime.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at March 21, 2005 09:28 AM
Maybe they were registering the warranty for their new rice cookers on the manufacturer's website.
Posted by: homebru at March 21, 2005 09:33 AM
Not trying to be funny, but how did the police know they were surfing the Internet while inside a secured US facility? Are we letting spies work within USIS's (US Interest Section) walls?
Posted by: Confused at March 21, 2005 05:19 PM
Confused:
GREAT question!
And if I was James Cason , I would be asking that of the Castro goverment!
Posted by: KillCastro at March 21, 2005 06:38 PM
With all due respect KillCastro,
Rather, I would be asking Cason. Would have been quite negligent on his part.
Posted by: Confused at March 21, 2005 08:05 PM
"Two dissidents were stopped last week by police officers after leaving the U.S. Interests Section where they had surfed the Interet."
That's two different statements there.
1. They left the US Interests Section
2. They had surfed the internet.
Nothing to indicate the two Cuban cops knew what they were doing there, only that they had been there.
Posted by: Jay at March 21, 2005 08:55 PM
All internet transactions and communications are monitored in Cuba by a special department within the G2. Meaning, they have personnel that instead of standing in line to buy their rice cookers are actually monitoring e-mails, IMs and surfing. The same with snail mail and phone calls. That's where the monies go in that country. Nothing amazing, they will monitor the communications at, to and from, inside and outside USIS as a first priority, so they know who is on the net, when and doing what.
Plus the vast network of chivatos.
Just visualize no embargo for a second... it would be the American tax payer subsidizing the repression next door. No good.
Posted by: CB at March 22, 2005 11:14 AM
