President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured today that enemies of the Revolution are trying to manipulate the opinions of university students regarding Etecsa’s recent measures, with the purpose of promoting the subversion of order in Cuba.
During the broadcast of the podcast Desde la Presidencia, the head of state commented that the opinions of the students of the island’s universities only allude to their disapproval of the redesign of the services of Empresa de Telecomunicaciones S.A. (Etecsa).
He also explained that higher education students expressed their opinions about the new mobile Internet rates in a respectful manner and through organizations such as the University Student Federation and the Union of Young Communists.
He also considered that the attempt to misrepresent the students’ claims and destabilize the country contrasts with the meetings of the company’s executives with the nation’s university community.
According to his opinion, the criticisms unleashed in centers of high studies of the country did not arise spontaneously, but precisely due to the manipulation of digital platforms or communication strategies designed to discredit the Revolution.
There is a campaign in social networks with the clear objective of discrediting the Revolution, he reiterated, and denounced that videos and photos were manipulated to represent supposed opposition demonstrations, in order to create a rupture between the youth and the government.
The President proposed a critical approach to the measures announced by the company to face its serious financial problems, which threaten to cause a collapse of the telecommunications system in Cuba.
Together with Díaz-Canel, the Vice Minister of Communications, Ernesto Rodríguez, and the president of Etecsa, Tania Velázquez, analyzed the causes and consequences of the company’s lack of liquidity.
Velázquez warned about the possible collapse of the country’s telecommunications system, referring to the obsolescence and deterioration of Etecsa’s infrastructure to offer its services.
The official explained that the recent redesign of Internet access with mobile devices, among others, has precisely the purpose of promoting profits to help sustain and resize the company’s services, the only one of its kind in Cuba.
The telecommunications industry is growing rapidly and we must recognize that we depend on imports, because the technologies installed in our systems are foreign, he said.
He also confirmed that mobile telephony “is one of the services that has grown most rapidly in recent years”, as a result of the government’s will to facilitate its access “to more Cubans”.
There are more than eight million lines in the country, of which seven million are enabled to access the Internet, which shows that it is one of the most widely accepted services, he said.
The president of the entity also pointed out the difficulties to guarantee the quality of mobile and fixed telephony services, in the midst of the critical energy situation of the country.
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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