According the the BBC, its now legal for individual Cubans to own computers. Here's a reminder that the Cuban regime (sans Castro) continues to be very repressive. More importantly, it fears dissent and free thought. Governments that fear their own people are worse that governments that are merely autocratic.
Its been easy for many people of the centre-left/centre like me to excuse the lack of democracy, citing health care and education. Freedom matters, democracy matters.
Lets hope that the Internet can do its democratizing magic (although we may need to be patient with China).
B.
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