Imagine: Cuba

[MADem]

21. You don't have to be "personal friends with Fidel himself" to have influence within the oligarchy.

But if you're just an ordinary Cuban, you do NOT have internet access. You cannot afford internet access. If you're communicating with someone in Cuba, it's on a satphone paid for by someone over HERE-- or via a for-profit corporation acting as middleman for a price, as your dot COM website proves.

Gee, I wonder who owns that for-profit enterprise? I know it doesn't have Cuban ownership. Let's have a look, shall we?

Domain Name: dimecuba.com
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ovh.com
Registrar URL: http://www.ovh.com
Updated Date: 2013-07-28T01:15:06.0Z
Creation Date: 2012-06-26T15:34:12.0Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-06-26T15:34:12.0Z
Registrar: OVH, SAS
Registrar IANA ID: 433
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: [phone]
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Padron Israel
Registrant Organization: Uniontel Communications, LTD
Registrant Street: Room 1203, 12/F, Tower 3, China Hong Kong City. 33, Canton Road, TST, KL
Registrant City: Kowloon
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: 0000
Registrant Country: HK
Registrant Phone: [phone]
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Suarez Antonio
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: dimecuba.com, office #4714883, c/o OwO, BP80157
Admin City: 59053
Admin State/Province:
Admin Postal Code: Roubaix Cedex 1
Admin Country: FR
Admin Phone: [phone]
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Suarez Antonio
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: dimecuba.com, office #4714883, c/o OwO, BP80157
Tech City: 59053
Tech State/Province:
Tech Postal Code: Roubaix Cedex 1
Tech Country: FR
Tech Phone: [phone]
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:
Name Server: dave.ns.cloudflare.com
Name Server: lady.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: signedDelegation
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System:
http://wdprs.internic.net/

http://whois.domaintools.com/dimecuba.com


And, fwiw, you don't have to telegraph the weakness of your argument by disparaging my comments with terms like "spewing" and "idiotic." You clearly cannot argue from strength if you resort to those tactics. I also think if you are going to snark about my "uninformed" and "unintelligible" POV, as you rudely did in your subject line, you might try at least being "intelligible" yourself--you don't acquit yourself well at all by insulting me in such fashion and AND misspelling not just one, but both words!

Mika
18. Uniformed and mostly uniteligible.

I haven't been "uniformed" in many years...



So, you can play the sarcasm/smilie game all you'd like, but the truth is that your bargain rates need to be subsidized by friends abroad. For the ordinary Cuban with no friends or family abroad, well, they're screwed. When you make twenty bucks a month, those rates are just out of reach. A thirty minute call would be a month's salary. Now THAT is a "dark fantasy." Only wait--it's a reality.

Here, again: