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Cuba’s bloggers are as sharp abroad as at home

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The Crisis of the Sugar Missiles
The 'Crisis of the Sugar Missiles'*|*Yoani Sanchez

Yoani Sanchez

The Congress of the Journalists Union of Cuba (UPEC) has just been contradicted. Barely a few days after that meeting of official reporters, reality has put them to the test... and they failed. Yesterday, the news that a freighter flying under the North Korean flag, coming from Havana and found with missiles and other military equipment in its hold, jumped to the first page of much of the world's press. In Panama, where the arms were detected, the president of the country himself sent out a report via Twitter about what happened. Knowing that in this day and age it's almost impossible to censor -- from the national public -- an event of such scope, we awoke this morning to a brief note from the Ministry of Foreign Relations. In an authoritarian tone it explained that the "obsolete" -- but functional -- armaments were being sent to the Korean peninsula for repairs. It did not clarify, however, why it was necessary to hide them in a cargo of sugar.

At a time when newspapers are offering lessons that governments can't get away with secrecy, the conformist role of the official Cuban press is, at the very least, painful. Meanwhile, in Spain several newspapers have challenged the governing party by publishing the declarations of its former treasurer; in the United States, the Snowden case fills the headlines, which demand explanations from the White House about the invasion of privacy of so many citizens. It is inconceivable that, this morning, Cuba's Ministry of the Armed Forces and its colleagues in Foreign Relations are not being questioned by reporters calling them to account. Where are the journalists? Where are these professionals of the news and of words who should force governments to declare themselves, force politicians not to deceive us, force the military not to behave toward citizens as if we were children who can be constantly lied to?

Where are the resolutions of the UPEC Congress, with their calls to remove obstacles, abolish silence, and engage in an informative labor more tied to reality? A brief note, clearly plagued with falsehoods, is not sufficient to explain the act of sending -- secretly -- arms to a country that the United Nations itself has warned others not to support with the technology of war. They will not convince us of their innocence by appealing to the antiquity of the armaments; things that produce horror never entirely expire. But, as journalists, the most important lesson to come out of this "crisis of the sugar missiles" is that we cannot settle for institutions that explain themselves in brief press releases, that cannot be questioned. They have to speak, they have to explain... a lot.
Fidel Castro in a video against the nuclear war on October 15, 2010, said: “Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear.”

The Castroit tyrannical regime is trading brown sugar weapons of destruction with the North Korean government, a state sponsor of terrorism. This is a perfect match and a very dangerous alliance for the rest of the world.
 
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The island doesn’t build missile components, where did this cargo originate from? The captain of the Korean ship attempted suicide for being caught red handed shipping missiles, found after being hidden under sugar and supposedly for repair. Why were the Russians not asked to fix it? If the weapons were obsolete, why repair them? Because the regime story is a complete lie. How is possible that anyone could pay attention to what the Castroit regime says, when it distort the facts and twist the words.
 
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Let's get this straight, Raul Castro II, the brother of Fidel Castro I, was anointed “president” of Cuba, and the actual North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Un the son of Kim Jong-il of North Korea. These two countries are a hereditary monarchy.

In early July 2013 a top North Korean general, Kim Kyok Sik, visited Cuba and met with his island counterparts. The Cuban Communist party newspaper Granma said he was also received by President Raul Castro and the two had an "exchange about the historical ties that unite the two nations and the common will to continue strengthening them". Of course, strengthening the historical ties by sharing weapons of war. Birds of a feather flock together.
 
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It would be less difficult or controversial, to send technicians over there. Does the Castroit regime really need North Korea assistance to fix the missiles, fighting jets and other weapons? It is very common for these old Soviet weapons to be completely retrofitted with modern explosives and electronics. The North Korea tyrannical military regime is outwardly provocative and unreasonable. It would be the least place to send weapons for repaired.
 
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No doubt they violated the laws of Panama that require ships to identify their cargo accurately to the Panamanian authorities to use the canal. Panama cannot allow such a violation of its national sovereignty and the Canal neutrality. The Panama Canal has been managed and operated since 1999 exclusively by the Panamanian with a great record of efficiency and competence as have been attested around the world.

Yoany Sanchez on her twitter from Habana, Cuba said: “I walk by a sign that says 'Revolution is to never, ever lie...' and what do you call hiding weapons under tons of sugar?” A liar in chief
 
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The Castroit regime said that "The Republic of Cuba reiterates its firm and unwavering commitment with peace, disarmament, including nuclear disarmament, and respect for International Law" Of course the regime will conduct a full investigation about the missiles hidden under the sacks of brown sugar cargo in the ship. I am sure that their investigation would answer questions like, who ordered these missiles to be concealed on the ship? Why were the Russians not asked to fix it? If the weapons were obsolete, why was the reason to repair them?

Certainly the regime press will be reporting on the investigation, and some higher up in the military will be severely punished. Even Raul Castro could be implicated in the investigation. Not even for a second would this happen.
 
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Cuban Missiles to North Korea Did Raul Castro Want to Get Caught?
Cuban Missiles to North Korea: Did Raul Castro Want to Get Caught?*|*Yoani Sanchez

Yoani Sanchez

The unforeseen, situations that nobody predicted, are for politics like pepper on food. When it appears that all the possible variables of a scenario are on the table, an event sneaks in among them that changes everything. Such is the case with the diplomatic crisis generated by the arms transported from Cuba in a North Korean ship, discovered in the Panama Canal.

After years of trying to clean up its act before international bodies, this incident sets Raul Castro's government back decades, returning it to the era of the Cold War. There is no time left for the octogenarian politician to reverse the effect of such a a misguided operation. Between now and his announced retirement in 2018, there are not enough days to make people forget the bungling of those missiles hidden under a cargo of sugar. Someone else, in his position, would renounce or remove the Minister of the Armed Forces, but a play like that has no precedent in the Castro regime.

On hearing about the trafficking in this arsenal of war, the question that immediately jumps to mind is how many times have operations like this been carried out without being discovered. The testimony and speculations about Cuba's sending troops and arms to countries in conflict abound. It is symptomatic that on this occasion the contraband has been intercepted mid-journey, which raises a new question. Why in this case has it come to light? Clumsiness or intention? Bungling or being out of touch with the workings of the real world? The questions will be asked, but the answers are known only to a few.

The truth is that these events confirm the denunciations of those who, for years, have documented the support of the Plaza of the Revolution for guerrillas, insurgents, destabilization groups, and governments sanctioned by international organizations. Wrapped in the halo of "proletarian internationalism," the help offered in most cases was hidden with subterfuges, such as merchant ships transporting soldiers or military equipment on the sly. It was the era when the sharp eyes of the satellites didn't track the planet with such precision, and the Soviet bear was there to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for its outstanding disciple in the Caribbean. A bygone and remote era.
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The United Nations has a tough problem to solve. In 2006 it imposed an arms embargo against North Korea, and this case has a great probability to be in violation of the embargo. If the UN try to impose sanctions for the violation of the arms embargo, and Russia, a member of the UN Security Council, vote again the sanctions, how then it will enforce its own rules? The North Korea regime will laugh at the sanctions and does as it please.
 
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Who in the top leadership approved this high risk operation? What was Raul Castro involvement on it? Who did the dirty work? Eventually we will get answers to these questions. Lying about the shipping of weapons to a country banned from receiving it is subject to UN sanctions, since it is a violation of the UN Chapter. The regime tries to justify it invoking national security against external threats. There is no threat from the U.S. or any body else for that matter, which could justify such an action.
 
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It is amazing that those that comment about the Castroit regime weapon smuggling operation don’t seem to understand that their arguments in defense of the operation have little to do with the real thing. Their politically distorted interpretation and justification of the smuggling of weapons are ridiculous. They keep distorting repeatedly the real facts without regard for the truth.
 
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Alvaro Uribe Vélez , former president of Colombia in his Twitter account said: “on the ship loaded with weapons and missiles. Remember that we had provided information regarding this news. I can say that the ship was not on its way to North Korea. This ship was on its way to Ecuador and some of those weapons was for that country.” Regards. I hope this is investigated.

The sugar missiles crisis becomes more involved with every new issue. An unassisted triple play?
 
Re: C. Corruption under the Castroit reguba’s bloggers are as sharp abroad as at home

Who in the top leadership approved this high risk operation? What was Raul Castro involvement on it? Who did the dirty work? Eventually we will get answers to these questions. Lying about the shipping of weapons to a country banned from receiving it is subject to UN sanctions, since it is a violation of the UN Chapter. The regime tries to justify it invoking national security against external threats. There is no threat from the U.S. that could justify such an action.
 
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It is amazing that those that comment about the Castroit regime weapon smuggling operation don’t seem to understand that their arguments in defense of the operation have little to do with the real thing. Their politically distorted interpretation and justification of the smuggling of weapons are ridiculous. They keep distorting repeatedly the real facts without regard for the truth.
 
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How come that and international incident of great magnitude isn’t mentioned on the Castroit regime news outlets? The Cuban people haven’t been informed of this grave situation involving the corrupt and international law braking regime. Look that is business as usual in the Castroit tyrannical military regime.
 
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Let see, a regime deputy foreign minister was rush to Panama to lie his way out of the legal troubles with regard to the contents on the ship. The regimen in Havana after the initial statement had remained silence. This time they will not be able to pull this off.

It will not be a surprise if in the remaining four cargo holds the Panamanians authorities find crates of AK-47 bound for the Colombia Marxists guerillas through Ecuador.
 
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When the Cuban people find out that the regime is a “paper tiger”, the demonstration on the streets, which belong to the people, will start and the regimen forces, even with the use of brute force, will not be able to stop it. If they open fire on the people on the streets, the end will come quickly for the Castroit tyrannical regime and a bloodbath will take place.
 
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Independent Labor Unions Outlawed in Cuba, for the 'Proletariat' and the Self-Employed Alike
Independent Labor Unions Outlawed in Cuba, for the 'Proletariat' and the Self-Employed Alike*|*Yoani Sanchez

Yoani Sanchez

The National Tax Administration (ONAT) office is open and dozens of people have been waiting from very early. An employee shouts directions for what line to get into for each procedure, although a few minutes later confusion will reign once again. At a desk without a computer another official writes the details of each case attended to, by hand. The wall behind her back is damp with humidity, the heat is unbearable and people constantly interrupt to ask for forms. An institution that takes in millions of pesos in taxes every year carries on with feet of clay, suffering from material precariousness and poor organization. Congested offices, interminable paperwork and lack of information are only some of the problems that hinder its management.

However, the setbacks don't stop there. The lack of stable wholesale markets with diversified products also slow down the private sector. The inspectors fall on the cafes, restaurants and other autonomous businesses. Strikes or any public demonstrations to reduce taxes are strictly forbidden. It is expected that the self-employed will contribute to the national budget, but not that we will behave like citizens willing to make demands. The only union permitted, the Central Workers Union of Cuba (CTC), tries to absorb us in their straitjacketed structures. Paying monthly dues, participating in congresses where little is accomplished, and parading in support of the same government that lays off thousands of workers: it is to this that they want to reduce our collective action. Why not create and legalize our own organization, one not managed by the government? An entity that is not a transmission line from the powers-that-be to the workers, but the reverse?

Unfortunately, most of the self-employed don't consider that salary independence and productivity must be tied to union sovereignty. Many fear that at the slightest hint of a demand their licenses will be cancelled and other measures taken against them. So they remain silent and accept the inefficiencies of ONAT, the inability to import raw materials from abroad, the excesses of the inspectors and other obstacles. Nor have emerging civil society organizations managed to capitalize on the needs of this sector to help them achieve representation. The necessary alliance between social groups that share nonconformity and demands doesn't materialize. So our labor demands continue to be postponed, caught between the fear of some and the lack of attention from others
Blast to the Past: Cuba labor relation before 1959

According to the World Health Organization archives in 1958, an industrial worker in Cuba earned an average salary of the equivalent of $6 US dollars per each 8-hour work day, while an agricultural worker earned the equivalent of $3 US dollars. Cuba then ranked number 8 in the world for industrial workers and number 7 for agricultural workers, with regard to salaries paid.

The International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in 1960 published this data: In 1958, Cuba had a labor force of 2,204,000 workers. The rate of unemployment at that time was 7.07%, the lowest in Latin America.

The Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC) was created in January of 1939. In 1958, the labor movement was a powerful force in Cuban society. It consisted of 33 federations with a membership of 1,522 unions composed of 1,214,271 workers.

Chapter Four of the 1940 Cuban Constitution recognizes "the inalienable right of the individual to work" and that the state will use all resources within its power to provide work for those without.
 
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Among the social and labor laws attained by the workers and the labor movement before 1959 trough collective bargaining were:

1. The establishment of minimum salary, for both public and private firms.

2. Social security for all workers, including disability, layoff and old age.

3. The right to retirement when the proper age was reached.

4. Health insurance for illness and accident, paid by the employers.

5. A one month vacation with pay per year.

6. Eight-hours maximum work per day and a maximum of 44 hours per week with pay of 48.

7. Maternity leave with salary, 6 week before and 6 after the due day.

8. Nine day sick leave a year with pay.

9. Christmas bonus equivalent to a month salary.

10. The right to strike included in the 1940 Constitution.
 
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Back to the present: Cuba labor relation after 1959

By January of 1960, more than 50% of the labor leaders, most of them members of the 26th of July Movement, which have been freely elected during the 10th Congress of the CTC (Cuba Workers Union) on November 1959, were removed, many of them persecuted and jail, and replaced by communist cadres in support of the Castroit regime.

In a TV speech June 26, 1961, Che Guevara, when he was Minister of Industries, said that: “The Cuban workers have to start being used to live in a collectivism regimen and by no means can they go on strike.” It didn’t matter to the regime that the constitution of 1940 had explicitly declared the constitutional standing of the right to strike in its article #71.

In November 1961 the communist took full control of the labor movement during the 11th Congress of the CTC. They declare null and void many of the major labor laws and key clauses of the collective agreements achieved by the labor unions since 1933. Among those nullified were the nine days of sick pay, previously paid automatically, now required proof of sickness, and the extra month's pay as Christmas bonus.

The regime recognizes a single national trade union, heavily controlled by it and the Communist Party which appoints its leaders. Membership is compulsory for all workers. The government explicitly prohibits independent trade unions.

In mid-1969 the Minister of Labor made public that the regime was preparing regulations for the "labor file" for all the workers, subsequently enacted into law in the labor code. This would include merits as voluntary work and over fulfillment of work quotas, and as absenteeism and non fulfillment of work quotas. In October 1970 the Minister of Labor proposed a vagrancy law resolution to send nonproductive workers in labor camps, and on March 1971 the regime enacted the law against vagrancy. The Castroit tyrannical regime doesn’t recognize the right to strike. This is their concept of a socialist workers’ paradise.
 
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In the 1952 harvest a labor force of 500,000, of which 300,000 were cane cutters, working 110 days produced 7.2 million MT of sugar, equivalent to 3.92 tons a month per worker. In 1970 harvest a labor force of 560,000, of which approximately 360,000 were cane cutters and with 20% of the cutting done with cane cutting machines, working 280 days produced 8.5 million MT of sugar, equivalent to only 1.63 tons a month per worker. In 1958 the sugar cutters were professionals, but in 1970 most of them were “volunteers” city workers and FAR recruits, which didn’t have experience cutting sugarcane and cause a lot of damage to the harvest.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, total agricultural production in 1969, 10 years after the Revolution, was 7% below that of 1958.
 
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Havana Havana, Your Fountains Are Broken
Havana Havana, Your Fountains Are Broken | Generation Y

Posted by Yoani-Sánchez

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I’m in the same park where thirty years ago my sister and I ran and played. Two girls turning pirouettes similar to ours hide behind some bushes. However, there is something very different in this deja vu: missing is the fountain with its sound of rain falling on marble. With rare exceptions, a very similar panorama repeats itself in every Havana plaza. Scarcity, negligence or urban policy, no one can explain it, but in recent decades this city has lost the moist presence of its fountains.

Guided by my memory, I decided to take a water tour. At the corner of Belascoaín and Carlos III all that is left of that pond where we dunked our hands and sometimes our feet is an empty tank. A few blocks further on, rusted iron marks the site of one of the more ephemeral fountains of my memory. It only lasted a few weeks after its inauguration in an official event, speech and all. Known as “Paulina’s bidet,” near Sport City, now and again downpours turn it into a greenish lake with tadpoles. And don’t even talk about the Fountain of Youth — drab and decrepit — so close to the sea, so far from its former glory.

In a brief investigation of why this city has lost so many sources, I find varied and revealing answers: “The problem is they stole the pump that supplies the water,” an official told me. At another site an annoyed employee assured me, “We had to close it because some people ended up bathing here, because they don’t have showers in their homes.” The nicest was a lady who looked at me with narrowed eyes while reproaching me, “Oh my, what a tremendous memory you have, this fountain hasn’t worked for decades.” In the center of Plaza Vieja stands one of the few that still functions, surrounded by an imposing fence, to keep the neighbors from taking the precious liquid bucket by bucket. My water tour ended, desert-like, at the well-known La India fountain, also without a drop of H2O.

As residents of this city we must do something so that our children can experience the beauty of parks with fountains. I know there are other priorities to be resolved, but how gray is the asphalt, how solitary a little square and how oppressive the heat without this sound of water skipping over the stones.
La Fuente Luminosa is located at the intersection of Avenida Rancho Boyeros and Avenida 26, La Habana. It was built during the Presidency of Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín (1944-48). At night the fountain was illuminated with color lights creating a beautiful spectacle for the people to watch. Here is a photo of the fountain functioning before 1959.

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Compare this photo with Yoani actual photo, without water, lights, where “now and again downpours turn it into a greenish lake with tadpoles.” The Castroit regime, the Midas touch in reverse, everything it touch turn to dust.
And this is an actual photo of the fountain without water.

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Cuba, Venezuela slammed on press freedoms
http://news.yahoo.com/cuba-venezuela-slammed-press-freedoms-211001604.html

Denver (AFP) - Venezuelan journalists and a dissident Cuban blogger denounced press censorship and other forms of media control by their countries' leftist governments, at a conference here Sunday.

Speaking on the second day of a meeting of the Inter-American Press Association, award-winning Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Cuban President Raul Castro in the past year has stepped up government crackdowns on free speech.

The crackdown has involved "violence carried out by pro-government mobs, intimidation, vandalism and the arrests of five (would-be) independent journalists," she said.

Cuban television, radio, newspapers and magazines are all state-run.

On a positive note, Sanchez hailed Twitter as "a great tool to report human rights violations in places that are under repressive regimes."

But she said that while Castro has opened cyber-cafe services to which Cubans can get paid access, most in the Caribbean nation of 11 million -- where the average salary is under $20 a month -- cannot afford it.
State media remains all that most Cubans have access to, since "it is prohibitive for anybody to spend a third of their monthly salary on an hour of Internet time," she said.

Cuba does allow government members, scientists and educators Internet access at work but home service is not an option.

Even the most influential non-state actor in Cuba, the Catholic church, has not been able to get its own schools and media in Cuba.

Venezuelan journalists pointed to the close coordination between Cuba and Venezuela on its "revolutionary" state-run media, which has expanded while the privately owned media has withered under government pressure.
Miguel Enrique Otero, editor of Venezuela's independent El Nacional newspaper, complained in debates that Venezuela was subject to a "media hegemony ... born in and advised from Havana."

Otero cited the example of a newly created Strategic Center for the Protection and Security of the Homeland (CESPPA). The group, which reports to the president's office, is supposed to censor at will any information deemed sensitive to national security.

"Sadly, the two governments are mirroring each other on the worst things -- in their failing to bring prosperity to their people, and in repressing freedoms," Cuba's Sanchez charged.

The two governments became close allies under the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who extended a lifeline to Cuba's cash-strapped communist government by providing it with cut-rate oil and hard currency.
Cuba's biggest hard-currency export earner is the more than six billion dollars a year Caracas pays Havana for the services of thousands of Cuban doctors and other medical staff.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro -- with six months in office -- so far has held to Chavez' line of extremely close cooperation with Cuba
Logically, a government run “for the people”, instead of “by the people” like in Venezuela, is not going to allow free media scrutiny. This has been true in all types of dictatorships, but mostly by those on the left.
 
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In Venezuela like in Cuba the government control the people by limiting and distorting the information provided to them. Hopefully in a near future Venezuelan and Cubans would be able to express themselves freely, and pursue the life goals they choose.

The only thing that the Castroist regime cares about is remaining in absolute power at the expense of the rights of the Cuban people. Nothing more and nothing less.
 
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The last sentence of Karl Marx Communist Manifesto says:

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite”

Cubans are now at that stage were they have nothing else to loose but their own life. So we can easily paraphrase Karl Marx and say:

“Let the ruling classes of the Cuban Communistic revolution tremble.The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, and the have a world to win. Cubans of the world, Unite”.
 
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The Illusion of Color
The Illusion of Color | Yoani Sanchez

Yoani Sanchez

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I got home from school and there was a man sitting on the floor in front of the TV. His fingers were stained with paint and some oil-paint tubes were scattered around him. It was the latest fad in the neighborhood: painting a colorful pattern on those boring black-and-white screens. The first one to do so was the downstairs neighbor, always up-to-date with the latest trends, which included posters of lightly-clad women taped to the walls, and an enormous porcelain tiger at the entrance to her home. She dictated fashion throughout the whole tenement, so when she transformed her "boob tube" with a rainbow in reds and blues, everyone imitated her. In my house at 218 Krim, they painted some stripes and even a central circle in various tones. Most significant is that years later, I remembered the programs and cartoons I saw on that "invention" as if they'd come to me in their original polychrome. My brain had joined the shades and constructed the illusion of color.

This personal anecdote comes to me when I read the latest 2012 Statistics from the Census of Population and Housing. On learning that there are still more than 700,000 black-and-white TVs in Cuba, I can't help but evoke the excited neighbors of my tenement using their fingertips to paint their cathode ray tubes. But in the current figures, there is not only evidence that they are still watching TV programming in black, white and gray... but also that they are economically worse off in our country. They are the ones who have failed to get together the convertible pesos for a modern Sony or LG. Those who probably have no family abroad, who haven't found a way to divert State resources, or whose privileges ended with the end of the USSR. The poorest who, in a society of such avid TV watchers, don't have the resources to enjoy the tonalities.

I wonder if any of those old TVs touched up with stripes in green, purple and cyan still survive... If some child on this island still watches like my sister and me did, mentally joining a piece of color here and another there to imagine Huckleberry Hound was a blue dog, or Cheburashka with his fur brown.

Now I no longer know, I can no longer distinguish in my memory, between what came to me thanks to the ingenuity of painted screens, or what I enjoyed years later thanks to the ingenuity of painted screens, or what I enjoyed years later thanks to Technicolor.
TV was inaugurated in Cuba October 10, 1950. The first channel to start transmission was No. 4 in September 1950, following by No. 6 in December 1950 and No. 2 in February 1953. At that time only the U.S. and Cuba had national networks of TV and radio joint by microwaves.

By 1954 Cuba was the fourth largest television market in the world and a leader and innovator in programing. In 1958 there were about 27 TV station operating in the country: three national networks with seven stations each, and six independent local stations.

UN statistics show that, by 1958, one out of 18 homes in Cuba had a TV set, equivalent to 45 TV sets per 100,000 inhabitants, occupying fifth rank in the world.
 
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Innovative use of technology in Cuba included a major baseball event: using an airplane as a relay to bring the 1955 World Series as a live TV broadcast to Cuban fans. They were thrill when Sandy Amorós, Brooklyn Dodgers left fielder, save the game with a spectacular catch of a line drive by New York catcher Yogi Berra, turning it into a double play in the seven inning, winning the World Series for Dodgers.

This was possible due to the ingenuity of Cubans engineers that equipped a Cubana Airlines DC-3 which flew a circular pattern between Key West and Havana, acting as a relay transmission station for the live TV signal.
 
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