{"id":1033,"date":"2014-12-18T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:34:11","slug":"cuba-inc-not-quite-helena-bottemiller-evich-and-adam-behsudi-politico-18-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/12\/18\/cuba-inc-not-quite-helena-bottemiller-evich-and-adam-behsudi-politico-18-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Inc.? Not quite &#8211; Helena Bottemiller Evich and Adam Behsudi &#8211; POLITICO, 18 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the communist Cuban government has rebuffed companies seeking to increase connectivity among its citizens, and Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro\u2019s speech Wednesday revealed very little in the way of Havana\u2019s next steps. In it, he broadly called for the United States to remove \u201crestrictions on traveling, direct post services and telecommunications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe they will suddenly change their behavior. You can\u2019t change the dynamic overnight,\u201d said Ellery Biddle, editor at Global Voices Advocacy and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/12\/cuba-inc-not-quite-113666.html\">Cuba Inc.? Not quite &#8211; Helena Bottemiller Evich and Adam Behsudi &#8211; POLITICO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, the communist Cuban government has rebuffed companies seeking to increase connectivity among its citizens, and Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro\u2019s speech Wednesday revealed very little in the way of Havana\u2019s next steps. In it, he broadly called for the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/12\/18\/cuba-inc-not-quite-helena-bottemiller-evich-and-adam-behsudi-politico-18-december-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}