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How Americans Helped Build or Underwrite Cuba’s Surveillance State

How Americans Helped Build or Underwrite Cuba’s Surveillance State

And what should be done to stop this

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Jun 03, 2025
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Late last month, Communist Cuba’s government-owned telecom monopoly, ETECSA, announced a hike in internet rates. The “proletariat” did not take kindly—Cuba’s average monthly income is between $20 and $30. The new pricing is far beyond what most Cubans can afford.

A few hours later, Cuba’s Stasi-like Ministry of the Interior (MININT) launched a sweeping “…

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