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On July 29, 2019, Cuba legalized private Wi-Fi in homes and businesses, although one must obtain a permit to have access. [4] As of December 6, 2018, Cubans can have full mobile Internet access provided by Cuba's telecommunications company, ETECSA, at 3G speeds. The roll out of the internet service took place from Thursday, December 6, to ...
International relations 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis Chilean President Sebastián Piñera says he agrees with Argentine President Mauricio Macri that the "corrupt dictatorship of Maduro has its days numbered". (ABC ES) Venezuelan refugee crisis Chile is extending its offer of "democratic responsibility" visas, allowing Venezuelans to live in the country for up to two years, so that they ...
That year, Channel 11 serving Camagüey City was launched, the first ever provincial television station. In 1960, the Cuban government purchased CMQ Channel 6 from its owners, becoming simply Channel 6 (Canal 6), the flagship channel owned and operated by the Government of the Republic thru the Bureau of Broadcasting, Ministry of Communications ...
Disasters and accidents Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. (Reuters) An explosion at a Russian Military high-explosive production and storage facility in the city of Dzerzhinsk injures 79 people. (BBC News) Six earthquakes, the first 5.3 M w, in a two-hour period near ...
The Cuban government has promised to take decisive action this month to halt a slide in the peso that has wiped out savings and left Cubans struggling to afford basic goods, but economists Reuters ...
The Cuban media are tightly controlled by the Cuban government led by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the past five decades. The PCC strictly censors news, information and commentary, and restricts dissemination of foreign publications to tourist hotels. Journalists must operate within the confines of laws against anti-government ...
International figures show 88% of Cubans live at the poverty level, a jump of 13% from the previous figures. “The Cuban Revolution is the greatest fraud ever committed against the Cuban people.
Many Cubans feel ill-equipped to handle their new, more unequal country, a feeling that has worsened as small private markets have opened, charging prices similar to international ones in a ...