Officials from both sides of the aisle want Biden to offer Cuba internet access now. But the Biden administration has been slow to react.
MIAMI — Cuba’s dictatorship quickly shut down the internet across the island and then blocked social media apps after demonstrators shared images of protesters across the island chanting for liberty, calling for an end to the 62-year-old regime and being beaten and arrested by authorities.
“The one thing that communist regimes fear the most is the truth. And if we're able to help Cubans communicate with one another and also communicate to the outside world, that truth is going to matter … Mr. President, now's the time to stand up and be counted.” But the White House isn’t ready to commit and has been relatively slow to react to the crisis in Cuba. That go-it-slow approach has emboldened Republicans, who criticize Biden as too sclerotic. And Florida Democrats fear the presidentin a former swing state that Republicans have increasingly begun to dominate by making inroads with Hispanic voters.
Any decision to offer connectivity to Cubans is part of an interagency discussion, said Julie Chung, acting assistant secretary for the State Department's bureau of Western Hemisphere affairs. However, she said, she couldn’t comment further on the specific proposal mentioned Wednesday in Florida because “I don't have an assessment” of it.
, which developed giant high-altitude air balloons that broadcast a type of wireless system that can be accessed by smartphones on the ground. Loon was scrapped but Raven still has the technology, which was briefly used in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017 and in Kenya, according to Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr, who spoke at the press conference here with DeSantis and Republican Reps. María Elvira Salazar and Carlos Giménez.
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