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Cuba's Only Email Service Has Been Mysteriously Shut Down

• motherboard.vice.com

The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) announced in an official note Wednesday that it has had to "completely stop email services" in the country.

As is often the case in Cuba, the communist government hasn't given an official reason for the shutdown. Service on the island has been spotty for more than a week, according to Jose Luis Martinez, communications director at the Miami-based Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, who is in regular communication with people on the island. Earlier this week, ETECSA said that the "infrastructure that supports the accounts has had a technical failure that affects the sending and receiving of emails."

"Unfortunately, a lot of things in Cuba are very obsolete and outdated and clunky"

While there's no law that stops Cubans from using Gmail or any other email service provider, the shutdown of all official email accounts, which are called Nauta accounts, will have huge ramifications for how people communicate on the island.


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