Things are looking up for the citizens of Cuba , who — after dumbfound the “ rightfield ” to buycellphones , microwaves , and other electronic goods — can now legally own domicile computers for the first time . Good newsworthiness for hapless Cubans , who are still living under the bloody despotism of the Castro Bros. and the destructive U.S. blockade . The match : still no entree to the net ( not to name most canonical Human Rights . )
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On Friday , a Havana shopping plaza commence selling QTECH PCs , a pillar - stylus desktop running Windows XP with 80 GB of memory , 512 M RAM and Intel Celeron central processing unit ( how US - made Intel processors can get into the island is still not clear-cut . ) At roughly $ 800 for an entire software program include a CRT monitor and keyboard / mouse , the QTECH is out of reach for most of Cuba ’s resident , who earn an average of $ 20 a month .
Internet access will stay restricted to certain workplaces , schools and university on the Island . The government has argued that the net would be more wide usable if Cuba was n’t blocked from connecting to undersea line because of the trade stoppage . But view their Internet policies let in allowing email address only for “ bank ” journalist , their media is state - see to it , and the little fact that there ’s no such affair as “ freedom of expression ” over there , the embargo self-justification sound more like another cheap attack to keep tight control of the citizenry on the island . [ BBC ]
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