On February, 25, 2007 the Washington Post released a article written by Anthony Boadle and Reuters on Cuba and its residents access to the Internet. As many would guess Internet access in Cuba is extremely limited and must be approved by the government.

In the Washington post article, Cuban dissidents found a way to get messages posted on the Internet through family and friends living abroad. Some have had entire website built for them. These dissidents and exiled Cubans use message boards and websites and a tool to get their message to the rest of the world.

"The Internet is a basic tool in today's world, but the government doesn't want Cubans to have outside information and only grants access to certain people," Leiva said.
Leiva said the site helps inform the world about the group's campaign to win the release of 59 of the 75 dissidents jailed since March 2003. The others were freed on medical parole.
The Cuban government calls dissidents "counterrevolutionary mercenaries" who are on the payroll of its ideological nemesis, the United States, and have little support in Cuba. (Despite Bans, Cuban Dissidents Get Word to the Web, 2007, A11"

Boadle, A. & Reuters. Despite Bans, Cuban Dissidents Get Word to the Web; Exiles Post Messages From Island's Anti-Castro Activists, Though Havana Blocks Sites (2007, February 25). The Washington Post, A11.

The newspaper article used as a topic source for this blog can be found by logging into USF library and searching for "Cuban Internet" in Lexis-Nexis Academic.

http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.usf.edu/us/lnacademic/auth/checkbrowser.do?ipcounter=1&cookieState=0&rand=0.2984738424794644&bhcp=1

My Experience

One of my co-workers is from Cuba. She often speaks about her experiences. Once we were discussing how often she e-mails her mother. She said that she did not e-mail her mother that ofter because her mother only had a few hours of internet privledges a month. I was shocked that her mother evan had internet. It makes it evan worse that she has about the amount of time in a month that an average american could spend on the internet in one evening. My co-oworker also said that the main reason her mother had access to the internet was because her mother was a school teacher.