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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition For Communist Cuba, more Internet, greater risk AFP - Wednesday, February 9 Send IM Story Print For Communist Cuba, more Internet, greater risk Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: Internet Portals & Search Engines HAVANA (AFP) - – For years, Cuba has blamed US sanctions for its costly, limited Internet access. But as a massive cable rolls ashore Tuesday from Venezuela bringing better connections, average Cubans' still will have limited access to the web. And with the development coming just as Egypt struggles with the revolutionary impact of social media on political stability, the Americas' only one-party Communist regime could find itself in suddenly stormier seas. A French ship will arrive in Siboney beach, Santiago de Cuba province, 870 km (540 miles) southeast of Havana, having run the cable 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) since January 22 from Camuri, in northern Venezuela. Socialist oil-rich Venezuela is the key political and economic ally for isolated and cash-strapped Cuba. Havana controls media and almost all of the economy on the Portugal-sized island of 11 million. The soon-to-arrive cable has been called one of the most ambitious bilateral projects between the government of President Raul Castro and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez. When it is switched on in July, it is supposed to allow a connection of up to 640 gigabytes a second. That means download speeds 3,000 faster than what Cuba has now, thanks to a cable being hailed as a boon for telephone and Internet service in the Caribbean nation. Since the dawn of the Internet, Havana has claimed US sanctions meant that Cuba only could get Internet service by satellite, resulting in costly and limited service. Critics who charged that argument was just a tool for political control are now outraged anew. That's because, as Cuba seems to be at its dawn of a new Internet age, the government as ever is warning access will be restricted. Deputy Information Technology Minister Jose Luis Perdomo, however, denied there was any political element to access, even as he said social media would continue to be used -- as now -- only in academic settings and some professional areas such as by journalists and doctors. "There is no political obstacle," he insisted. The cable is not a "magic wand," Perdomo said, arguing that the government needs to invest in infrastructure before opening unlimited Internet access to all Cubans at some unspecified point in the future. Some Cuban dissidents and other critics of the Communist government charge that Havana is censoring with its Internet policies and controlling access to information and restricting it to social media which could be used against it. Indeed in recent years, Cuba has become a battleground for blogging dissidents and counter-blogging pro-government detractors. Just in the past few days, a 50-minute video was posted in which a purported Interior Ministry official is seen charging the United States with fomenting Internet- and social media-based based dissent. "A network of Internet mercenaries is being set up who are not the traditional counterrevolutionaries," the official is heard to say, citing as one example international award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, a tough government critic whether blogging or tweeting. The official is heard to warn that "the Internet psychology is just the same with Cuban Internet users," insofar as their acceptance (for those who have access) of and use of Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The government says that 1.6 million Cubans have access to the Internet out of 11.2 million. While they can surf at hotels with cards paid for in hard currency, it is not an option for many at seven dollars an hour. Cubans make an average 20 dollars a month. "It would be logical for this cable to give high speed service and make service cheaper for all Cubans, because we cannot afford it," explained construction worker Yenier Garcia, 36, standing in line at a government Internet use site to send an email to a friend in Sweden. 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