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| My mind raced and my heart beat quickly as Dámaris Arencibia, a fiery woman in her early 30s, and the daughter of my host parents in Cienfuegos, rattled off a list of complaints about the Cuban government in Spanish so fast I had trouble just keeping up.
“Why can’t we have cell phones?” she demanded. “Why can’t we have access to the Internet? What could it possibly hurt?”
I had sparked a debate in the family by bringing up a subject we touched on in our Cuban culture class a few hours before, on a stiflingly hot February afternoon. One of our professors, Dictinio Díaz, told us about a series of unwritten laws in Cuba, popularly known as prohibitions.
As of the end of our winter quarter trip, there were many tourist hotels where Cuban citizens were not allowed to check in, because the hotels require a passport from another country to book a room. The phone companies wouldn’t allow Cuban citizens to activate a cellular plan. Internet access and even the purchase of a computer were prohibited for everyone except those for whom the government deemed it necessary.
Cubans can’t travel to other countries without a formal invitation from someone abroad, which essentially entails an agreement from that foreigner that they’ll take care of the Cuban citizen for a set amount of time, and then facilitate their safe return to the island. Cubans can’t travel alone as tourists, even if they have the money to do so, as some of them cer ... |
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