Access Online: Internet Governance and Image in Cuba

In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Volume 34, Issue 3, p. 340-355

Abstract

This article examines the restrictions on internet access in Cuba and asks to what extent the lack of access to the World Wide Web has helped to maintain (with some evident changes), the socialist status quo on the island. The article will also examine how the internet is used to represent the nation externally and ultimately argues that the Cuban government is negotiating a fine line between taking full economic advantage of what the internet can offer and hampering its use as a mechanism for the subversion of the Revolution in the face of continued US aggression.