Cuban paradise: 9 in 1,000 access the web; 20 state agents per foreign correspondent

[naaman fletcher]

UNITED NATIONS — “Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right…but around the world there are governments and those wielding power who find many ways to obstruct it,” warned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon proclaiming World Press Freedom Day.
Thus when Vincente Botin, a veteran Spanish TV news reporter formerly based in Cuba, briefed UN correspondents, the message was all the more poignant. Botin, whose four year stint in Havana working for Spain’s TV Espanola, spoke of the ongoing pressures from the Castro dictatorship and the continuing attacks against the free press.

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Cuba holds the dubious distinction of jailing the second largest number of journalists in the world today, led only by the People’s Republic of China.

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http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/mz0363_04_30.asp