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The revelations of the long-term foothold of Chinese spy agencies in Cuba come after new intelligence reported by The Wall Street Journal suggested Cuban and Chinese officials were discussing building a spy base and a military training facility on the island and paying billions of dollars to Cuba in exchange.
“Clearly something was going on, but we didn’t know what.”
Internet, the thorn in the side of Cuba's one party state Issued on: 21/04/2021 - 03:49 Since 2018, young Cubans have been able to connect to the internet through 3G on their phones YAMIL LAGE AFP 4 min Havana (AFP) Cuba's communist leadership has always viewed the internet with suspicion while trying desperately to control it. Raul Castro, the former president and leader of the Communist Party, who officially retired on Monday, has blasted the medium for "lies," "manipulation" and "subversion." But for Cuba's 11.2 million people who have long been...
POLITICO Biden's promised Cuba reset has big tech implications The island nation has made a giant leap in connectivity in recent years, but there is demand for much more. President-elect Joe Biden has said he’ll overhaul the U.S. approach to Cuba. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Link Copied On Inauguration Day, President-elect Joe Biden will inherit the United States’ fraught relationship with Cuba, one with technology at the center of it. And whatever Biden does next vis-à-vis Cuba — he said in September he’d try to “reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans ...