Flood gates open as Cubans given the green light to buy mobile phone service

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Razor1973 @ Apr 18th 2008 5:40PM

Now, I believe those prices are in CUC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_convertible_peso), which means it's a lot more than that in US$. I lived in Cuba the first 22 years of my life. At first, this sounds like a huge deal, but it is not much different from what we've had. Yes, Raul Castro is lifting a lot of life-long restrictions, but, although this allows Cubans to legally buy things like cell phones and computers, it doesn't change much in real life, since they are completely inaccessible by 99% of the population which makes a twentieth of what an 80' style tiny boombox sells for (north of 300 CUC). This is nothing but a political move.

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K Kumar @ Apr 18th 2008 5:53PM

At least they get to rock some kick ass clothing! Did you wear stuff like that when you lived there?

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