WASHINGTON -American will send cell phones to the Cubans soon’ President Bush said Wednesday, while addressing recent changes in Cuba, at White House. According to Mr. President this move will push the communist rule to offer freedom of expression to Cuban citizens.
Bush said that now Cubans were allowed to get mobile phones, DVD players and computers and they had been told that they would be able to get toasters and other appliances in 2010.He further added that if the Cuban rule was serious about improving life for the Cuban people, it must take necessary steps to make these reforms really meaningful. According to Mr. President, he had marked Cuba’s 106th anniversary of independence this week.
Dan Fisk who is National Security Council senior director for Western affairs, stressed that the new strategy, which is going to be effective in next few weeks, is not a relaxation of the U.S. economic ban against Cuba, contrarily it is just a change in U.S. regulations that will let cell phones to be in gift packs that Americans can launch to Cubans.
The Cuban government didn’t remark on whether the blitz of new cellular phones would make it throughout the Cuban background without confrontation.
Joe Garcia, former head of the Cuban American National Foundation, which was being run to dethrone Republican Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, named that new cell phone rule an ornamental policy change.
Joe Garcia further added that if Bush seriously wanted change in Cuba, he must have instantly granted Cuban-American family visits without any restriction and remittance rights as well.
He regarded Bush’s move as a political gamesmanship to win votes from Cuban-Americans in the coming presidential election.
American cell phones under service bond from the U.S. work in some areas of the island but the service is not considered dependable and it often depends on specifications of the cell phone.
Raul Castro, the first Cuban new president in 49 years, abolished bans that debarred Cubans from getting cell phones at their names, to stay in tourist hotels and purchasing a DVD players, computers and many in demand kitchen devices. He also vowed solid improvements in the state salaries as he has acknowledged that the salaries are too small.
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