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简介：Cubans wait to go online at an Internet cafe in Havana earlier this year. The Cuban government announced months ago that a new fiber-optic cable to Venezuela would improve Internet access and speeds, but that still hasn't happened.



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Cuba
Venezuela
Nick Miroff
Havana
Facebook and Twitter
Castro
iPhones and BlackBerries
Miami
Madrid
Wi-Fi

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Now to one of the least connected countries in the world. In Cuba, millions of young people have never been online. Even having dial-up Internet can be the stuff of dreams. That was supposed to change this year with an undersea fiber optic cable linking Cuba to Venezuela. But six months after its installation, Cubans are still starved for Web access. Nick Miroff has the story from Havana. Watching government-run television newscasts in Cuba is often a strange experience, but especially so when the topic is social media. This recent report about Facebook and Twitter is a case in point. It's not that the Castro government here is telling Cubans those sites are something to fear. It's actually the opposite. The young reporter in this segment sits in front of a laptop and without a hint of irony extols the virtues of social networking as a source of real-time alternative information. But given the near total lack of Internet access here, she may as well be describing the surface of the Moon. There are other strange sights on this island, like Cubans carrying new iPhones and BlackBerries brought in from Miami or Madrid that only work here for talking and text messaging. Others have brand-new laptops bought on the black market or sent from relatives abroad but no Web access so they stand outside condo buildings that house foreign businessmen trying to catch an open Wi-Fi signal. Then there are cyber cafes like this one in Havana that are woefully short on the cyber part.