MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban regime complained this Friday through the state agency Prensa Latina about the removal of a billboard from the Katapulk company ―of Cuban-American businessman Hugo Cancio― and the island regime’s telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA.
The billboard, which promoted a “free recharge” from ETECSA through the Katapulk website, was located on the Palmetto Highway and Northwest 74th Street, in Miami, and was withdrawn this Thursday after generating a wave of criticism.
“The intolerance shown today by some anti-Cuban sectors in Miami forced the removal of a billboard just because it advertised phone top-ups with the logo of the telecommunications company ETECSA of the Caribbean country,” he published. Latin Press.
The official Cuban media outlet also complained about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s opposition “to any rapprochement” between Cuba and the United States, and alluded to the politician’s rejection of the resumption of American Airlines flights to various provinces. Cuban.
“In DeSantis’s mind, far from benefiting families on both sides of the Strait, allowing more flights to the Island will only enrich the pockets of those they consider ‘communist dictators,'” reported Prensa Latina.
This week, numerous Cuban exiles complained about advertising to Castroist companies in the heart of Miami. “This is a lack of respect for exile”, wrote on facebook the user Yoan Vega. “Those who always demand, those who censor, those who have denied entry to Anamely Ramos González and Omara Ruiz Urquiola, those who claim the right and possession of a country, come to the capital of exile to laugh in our faces. “, lament.
Also, during a live broadcast of CubaNet From the place where the fence was located, the president of Somos +, Darién Fernández, described the poster as an “inconceivable lack of respect”.
“We definitely cannot allow this,” he said. “That company, Katapulk, is in collusion with ETECSA, (…) which is the company that often cuts off the internet to opponents in Cuba, cuts off their phone lines and listens to what they are talking about.”
“We cannot continue to be manipulated by these companies, whose only interest is not to shorten distances, it is not that you call your relatives in Cuba; what interests them is the money that the exiles have been able to obtain in this country with a lot of sacrifice”, he assured.
Recently, the journalist Claudia Padrón Cueto revealed in the report of CubaNet “Online stores for Cuba, who wins with hunger on the Island?” that Katapulk belongs to the company Fuego Enterprises Inc. (with a capital of 19.1 million dollars), founded by the Cuban-American Hugo Cancio on December 30, 2004 with headquarters in Miami.
In his report, Padrón Cueto also recalls that Cancio, the owner of Katapulk, is not just a Cuban-American. His name is probably familiar as he was one of the main faces of the thaw in the Obama era. He is also the owner of magazines like OnCuba Y ART OnCubawhich the government allowed to register in a country that criminalizes and persecutes the independent press.
“Even bombastic headlines in 2015 defined him as ‘the contact for US business in Cuba.’ With his company, Cancio brought important Cuban artists such as Silvio Rodíguez, Pablo Milanés and Van Van to play in the United States”, Padrón Cueto points out.
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