The forced exile of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara reveals the Cuban regime’s major fear: the power of art and of a single individual to challenge repression and inspire freedom.
ETECSA's price hike --dubbed the "tarifazo"-- not only makes Internet access more expensive: it seeks to silence the social pluralism that threatens the foundations of the Cuban regime.
In autocratic, authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, where power is assumed as a staged representation, information loses its character as a public good and becomes an exercise in communicative manipulation.
