Cubans go online with a scratch card

havana - According to President Obama, there should be more Internet in Cuba, he tells during his historic visit to the communist island. But Cubans could read the news of the president just their mobile phones around the Parque Coyula in western Havana.

For a few years can scratch tickets be purchased for Internet access. In more and more places in the city offered these types of spots. The population knows exactly where they should be for the best internet reception. On their scooters and their old Fiats they make a stop here and they conjure up in no time their mobile forwards. Typically Asian appliances- no American iPhones- to what juices for a few minutes or use other social media. Fast is not, and certainly not all sites are available. But it gives a glimpse into a world that was closed a long time for the Cubans, and something accordance Obama can provide an accelerated path to freedom.

The sale of tickets is obviously in the hands of the state, but there is a lively brokering arose. The queues for the tickets (one hour costs 2 Cuban pesos, a little over one euro) long. Parque Coyula walk many guys around who sell the tickets for three pesos. It prevents long wait and ensures that you can upgrade quickly if you stayed too long hang on the facebook pages of relatives in the US

But that is dangerous. When the police arrested the vendors, they are fined 60 pesos. 'It's worth it. I can thus earn much more than, for example as a taxi driver, 'explains a 21-year-old salesman from which logically does not want his name in the newspaper.

Cubans can buy only three cards at a time. The vendors offer people in rows 2.5 pesos to take over their cards. The police states that condone what fits the image that entrepreneurship is gradually being accepted by the Raul Castro regime.