{"id":5649,"date":"2021-07-20T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:01:23","slug":"will-the-internet-destroy-cubas-communist-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5649","title":{"rendered":"Will the Internet Destroy Cuba&#8217;s Communist Dictatorship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;On Sunday, July 11,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/07\/11\/cuba-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thousands of Cubans<\/a>&nbsp;in dozens of cities around the island nation took to the streets to protest the country&#8217;s communist dictatorship and persistent shortages in food, energy, and medicine, all of which have been made worse by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrations have been enabled by social media and the internet, which only came to Cuba in a big way in late 2018, when President Miguel Diaz-Canel allowed citizens access&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/12\/05\/cuba-to-roll-out-mobile-internet-for-the-first-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to the internet on their cellphones<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bnTYBZS6v7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/video\/2021\/07\/15\/will-the-internet-destroy-cubas-communist-dictatorship\/\">Will the Internet Destroy Cuba&#8217;s Communist Dictatorship?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Will the Internet Destroy Cuba&#039;s Communist Dictatorship?&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/video\/2021\/07\/15\/will-the-internet-destroy-cubas-communist-dictatorship\/embed\/#?secret=esGdXkjDEL#?secret=bnTYBZS6v7\" data-secret=\"bnTYBZS6v7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans in dozens of cities around the island nation took to the streets to protest the country&#8217;s communist dictatorship and persistent shortages in food, energy, and medicine, all of which have been made worse by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations have been enabled by social media and the internet, which only came to Cuba in a big way in late 2018, when President Miguel Diaz-Canel allowed citizens access to the internet on their cellphones.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1189,1210,612,362,328,1005],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-communism","tag-cuba","tag-internet","tag-protests","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}