Friday, July 16, 2021

Cubans Used Homemade Radios to Avoid the Internet Shutdown. Now They Are Being Jammed Too

 A man holds a sign reading "Communism is evil" during a protest showing support for Cubans demonstrating against their government, in Hialeah, Florida on July 15, 2021. - Unprecedented anti-government protests broke out in Cuba on July 11, which the single-party state leadership blames on a Twitter campaign orchestrated by …

Communist Cuba has engaged in a massive campaign of radio jamming this week in response to protesting Cuban citizens taking to the airwaves – often with homemade radios – to get news in and out of the country after the regime turned off the internet.

Cuba’s state-run telecommunications firm severely constricted the access of ordinary citizens to swathes of the internet in recent days, with social media and messaging apps all impacted. As Breitbart News reported this week, the anti-information move comes amid a rising tide of anti-government protests on the island, which are being violently repressed by the regime.

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