It’s not the type of connection that would support downloading hundreds of gigs of content every week.
Only 5 percent of Cubans can access the uncensored World Wide Web, and when they do, the connection is horrendously slow. It's unclear how they get ahold of the content sourced from the internet (digital news publications, YouTube videos, and pirated movies, for example). I gathered that most of it is being digitized via illegal satellites that are hidden in water tanks on rooftops.
It's either delivered to their home or transferred at a pickup station, usually in the back of a cellphone repair shop, a natural cover for this type of operation.ĭany relies on data traffickers to deliver the files, but said he didn't know how those sources obtained the content in the first place. Paquete subscribers pay between $1 and $3 per week to receive the collection of media. It’s a competitive market playing out in the shadows of a tightly controlled communist economy. They compete to develop the best collection of weekly digital content in the fastest turnaround time possible for their subscribers.
There are two Paquete kingpins in Havana: Dany and Ali. Check out the video above to see how Cubans bypass censorship to access the media we take for granted. I went behind the scenes in Havana to film how El Paquete works. It is a prodigious and profitable operation. "El Paquete Semanal" (the Weekly Package) is a weekly trove of digital content -everything from American movies to PDFs of Spanish newspapers - that is gathered, organized, and transferred by a human web of runners and dealers to the entire country. But in typical Cuban fashion, the law doesn't stop a vast underground system of entertainment and news media distributors and consumers. Publications are limited to the state-approved newspapers and magazines. Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited.
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