According to some newspapers, the government of Cuba announced that it will allow Cubans to buy a computer. As long as they have the dollars to buy it. My brother was selling Apple II computers in 1978. Then, the Communists had in Cuba for almost twenty years in power. But it took nearly fifty years to allow any citizen to buy a computer. Remains to be seen how they will control access to Internet, as do the Communists in China. Four or five years ago, I communicated via email with a brilliant Cuban essayist, an acquaintance had access to a computer and an email account because I had a job as a doctor at the University of Havana. The writer had no permission to either one nor to the other. But what I say computers. Reynaldo Arenas confiscated to the old typewriter, and of course the typed sheets, which had to hide in the most unlikely to protect the state. And that the great solitary Reynaldo Arenas was not alone. Another news to reflect on what they understand as many people as a "progressive cause": Some voices Cuban (without privileges, such as the daughter of Raúl Castro) and discussed in Cuba the right of Cubans to stay in Cuban hotels in Cuba. Perhaps the government more jealous of their sovereignty in Latin America is willing to grant its citizens the most basic rights. Maybe those basic rights to become, before passing another fifty years, part of the arsenal of the causes "progressives."
