Havana

Where’s the bandwidth? More than a year after the first fiber-optic cable reached Cuba, the island nation still has no high-speed Internet connection. The undersea cable, laid from Venezuela last year with much fanfare and praised by retired dictator Fidel Castro, has never gone online. Cubans speaking anonymously told the Associated Press this week that embezzlement and corruption had strangled the project. Several top telecom officials were arrested, but there’s been no more official discussion of the project. The cable was intended to provide high-speed Internet access to schools, hospitals, and government offices, not to home computers.

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