The Cuban communications monopoly, ETECSA, denounced that false information is circulating about disruptions due to maintenance actions for this Thursday, July 11, the third anniversary of the historic protests against the island's regime.
Through the social network Facebook, the state company ruled out problems on its platform and asked users to check its website or other institutional profiles for any official information.
However, history tells us that the communist regime pulls the strings at will in this type of commemorations and tries to silence the voices of those who denounce the continuous abuses in the Antillean territory.
It is worth noting that on the eve of the May Day parade in 2024, there were reported internet service interruptions to Cuban independent journalists.
Since the afternoon of April 30, at least five reporters from Cubanet, including Osniel Carmona Breijo, Anay Remón, Vladimir Turró, Enrique Díaz, and Alejandro Hernández Cepero, have reported a partial or total suspension of their internet connection.
That was not a new phenomenon. The regime always, when organizing a large event or approaching significant dates, interrupts the service to independent journalists, harasses them in their homes, and even detains them in police units so that they cannot report on what is happening in Cuba.
These actions highlight the ongoing repression against independent press, but they also demonstrate the acts of resistance and the fight for freedom of expression on the island.
A few weeks ago, despite the poor service they provide to their users, ETECSA claimed that its internet service is the cheapest in the entire Caribbean.
According to Lidia Esther Hidalgo Rodríguez, the commercial vice president of the state company, it is possible to patent this fact taking into account the parameters of the informal exchange rate: "One gig of mobile data is equivalent to 0.17 dollars," she declared to the official newspaper Granma.
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