In Cuba comes the optical fiber. But (for now) the freedom of the Web remains a mirage

A few more months and Cuba will eventually be the only nation isolated from the global telecommunications network. At least from a technical point of view, because the internet in the island of Fidel Castro is still subject to heavy censorship. Tomorrow, at Siboney, near Santiago de Cuba, the ship should land the French company Alcatel-Lucent, which two weeks ago in La Guaira, Venezuela, has begun laying fiber-optic submarine cable that will connect the island with the rest of the world: 1552 km of cables for a $ 70 million project funded by the Dawn, the program of political and economic cooperation for Latin America begun in 2004, Havana-Caracas axis.