Cuba’s Internet Apartheid
Yoani Sanchez and Reinaldo Escobar go to the Hotel Melia Cohiba and attempt to purchase an hour of internet time. As Cuban nationals, they are denied:
Full transcript in English at Yoani's English language blog, right here.
Update: Here's the video with Enlgish subtitles, just scroll your icon over the box on the screen for English translation.
Val,
Let's just start a campaign against this hotel chain, letting people know that they
discriminate against Cuban nationals access to the internet.
Apparently, no one cares that Cubans are regularly denied equal rights in the tourist sector of the economy (or any other sector of the economy, for that matter). How else do you explain Orbitz.com launching http://www.opencuba.org/ to build "grassroots" opposition to travel restrictions? I don't know about you guys, but Orbitz isn't getting any business from me.
Sorry, didn't see the post from rsnlk about the Orbitz campaign. My bad.
Let's start organizing tourists to Cuba to help by taking flashdrives from these Cuban bloggers who aren't allowed access and posting the info for them. I think there ARE foreign people who care enough to help, or maybe I'm just being naive. If they start getting arrested, what would that do to tourism?