For Another Cuba / Lia Villares
Category: Lia Villares
“Catch and Release”: El Sexto (Danilo Maldonado) Arrested on Saturday, Released on Sunday, His Work Confiscated / Lia Villares, Danilo Maldonado
Saturday [18 May 2013]
El Sexto is raided at his home this afternoon at 1:15 pm, according to Alexandra his wife and owner of the apartment, who learned of it through an email from her dad who lives downstairs and saw men and women in uniform and in plainclothes, accompanied by 2 neighbors from the CDR [Committee for the Defense of the Revolution], and a major from MININT [Ministry of the Interior], in all about 5 people, they showed him a search warrent and confiscated his laptop, spray paints and all the works they found and took him away in a patrol car. As of now with destination unknown.
Translator’s note: This post and the following ones (now with earlier time stamps) together form a report on El Sexto’s (“the Sixth” — Danilo Maldonado) arrest, the search of his home and the confiscation of his belongings.
18 May 2013
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Internet Access in Cuba / Lia Villares
[Note: The following is translated from the ETECSA (the Cuban telephone company) website. 1 CUC, with currency exchange costs, is less than $1 US. Monthly salaries in Cuba for the most part do not exceed $20/month and may be well below that.]
Who can apply for service to access the Internet?
Service to access the Internet is offered to legal persons and foreign natural persons with temporary or permanent residence in Cuba. For now, the service is not offered to Cuban natural persons or foreigners resident in the exeterior who come as tourists to the island (they should access it through the navigation rooms), nor to the Cuban residental sector.
Who can access the Internet in the navigation rooms?
Public Internet access is offered in our country to foreign natural persons (tourists or residents on the island) in the navigation rooms located in airports, hotels and tourist installations, as well as in the [Centers…] belonging to ETECAS’s point of sale network. [A prepaid card is required.]
Who can access the Internet via WiFi?
WiFi Internet access is exclusively for foreign natural persons, residents or tourists…
What are the charges for Wifi in hotels with wireless coverage?
1 hour: 8.00 CUC [more than $8 US]
5 hours: 35.00 CUC
100 hours: 250.00 CUC
Monthly rates for commercial clients (CUC)
| PACKET-SWITCHED |
integrated services through digital web |
Through
Analog-switched network
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rate | additional hour | rate | additional hour |
|
| full internet navigation |
||||
| Máximo 10 horas |
20.00
|
5.00
|
15.00
|
5.00
|
| Máximo 30 hrs |
35.00
|
4.00
|
30.00
|
4.00
|
| Máximo 40 hrs |
40.00
|
3.00
|
||
| Máximo 60 hrs |
50.00
|
3.00
|
||
| Máximo 80 hrs |
70.00
|
2.00
|
60.00
|
2.00
|
| Only 8.00 p.m. to 7.00 a.m. (night plan) |
70.00
|
70.00
|
||
| International email and national navigation |
||||
| Máximo 15 hrs |
15.00
|
3.00
|
15.00
|
3.00
|
| Máximo 25 hrs |
20.00
|
2.00
|
20.00
|
2.00
|
| Máximo 60 hrs |
35.00
|
1.00
|
35.00
|
1.00
|
| National email and national navigation |
||||
| Máximo 20 hrs |
10.00
|
1.00
|
10.00
|
1.00 |
| Additional mailbox |
10.00
|
10.00
|
||
| International Corporate Email |
||||
| Máximo 20 hrs |
25.00
|
4.00
|
15.00
|
5.00
|
| Máximo 40 hrs |
30.00
|
3.00
|
25.00
|
4.00
|
| Máximo 100 hrs |
55.00
|
2.00
|
45.00
|
3.00
|
| National Corporate Email |
||||
| Máximo 20 hrs |
15.00
|
3.00
|
10.00
|
3.00
|
| Máximo 40 hrs |
20.00
|
2.00
|
20.00
|
2.00
|
| Máximo 100 hrs |
40.00
|
1.00
|
40.00
|
1.00
|
Rates for Commercial Clients (CUC)
[Translator’s note: These rates only apply to distances of 4 km. See below for the “add-on” charges for service over longer distances.]
| SPEED (Kbps) |
CONTRACT (IN YEARS) |
Cost OF instalLaTiOn |
MONTHLY COST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 1 año | 1.500,00 | 9.000,00 |
| 3 años | 1.500,00 | 8.500,00 | |
| 5 años | 1.500,00 | 8.250,00 | |
| 10 años | 1.500,00 | 8.000,00 | |
| 128 | 1 año | 1.500,00 | 13.000,00 |
| 3 años | 1.500,00 | 12.500,00 | |
| 5 años | 1.500,00 | 12.250,00 | |
| 10 años | 1.500,00 | 12.000,00 | |
| 256 | 1 año | 1.500,00 | 22.500,00 |
| 3 años | 1.500,00 | 22.000,00 | |
| 5 años | 1.500,00 | 21.750,00 | |
| 10 años | 1.500,00 | 21.500,00 | |
| 512 | 1 año | 1.500,00 | 30.500,00 |
| 3 años | 1.500,00 | 30.000,00 | |
| 5 años | 1.500,00 | 29.750,00 | |
| 10 años | 1.500,00 | 29.500,00 | |
| 1024 | 1 año | 2.500,00 | 46.500,00 |
| 3 años | 2.500,00 | 46.000,00 | |
| 5 años | 2.500,00 | 45.750,00 | |
| 10 años | 2.500,00 | 45.500,00 | |
| 2048 | 1 año | 2.500,00 | 72.000,00 |
| 3 años | 2.500,00 | 71.500,00 | |
| 5 años | 2.500,00 | 71.250,00 | |
| 10 años | 2.500,00 | 71.000,00 |
The local urban distance refers to a local perimeter (up to 4km). If the distance to the International Center is farther than 4 km, corresponding sums are added to this rate corresponding to the distance of the interconnection, defined in the rates of the national link.
For example, a Point-to-Point international circuit of 2 Mbps for one year, between Cuba and Canada, would have a monthly rate of:
72,000.00 CUC + 27,000.00 CUC = 99,000.00 CUC
(Cuba stretch) (Canada stretch) (Total)
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Recharge Antonio Blanco’s Cellphone to Keep the News Coming Out of Cuba / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Lia Villares, For Another Cuba
Orlando, Lia, and For Another Cuba are all asking for help to recharge the cellphone of Anger Antonio Blanco, activist and correspondent with the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), in Santiago de Cuba.
You can recharge this phone and those of other bloggers and human rights activists by following the directions here: Direct Help to the Bloggers
Blanco’s numbers are: 58 14 66 06 and 53 84 29 29
20 April 2013
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An Emotional Night with Angel Santiesteban / Lia Villares
Lia Villares: An emotional night with Angel Santiesteban at Estado de Sats: his last minutes of freedom.
28 February 2013
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ExpresArt in Freedom’s Twitter Contest Winners
The winners, who can choose between an iPad mini, a camera or a laptop as their prize, are:
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
My #Cuba2013 fits into the migratory poetry of daisy petals: Do I go or do I not? Do I go or do I not? Do I go or do I not? Do I go or…
Lia Villares
I want a collective conscience that wants to change things #ForAnotherCuba, all together!
The Honorable Mentions are:
Mario Félix Lleonart
#Cuba2013 will finally be the white rose of Marti @expresarte2013 #Cuba
Walfrido López
At this time #Ihaveadream recurs. In #Cuba2013it will be as #INTERNET: universal, free, open and neutral
Rebeca Monzó
#Cuba2013 My granddaughters come home from school and ask me: Grandma, who were the Castros?
30 January 2013, as reported by ExpresArt en Libertad
