but even at these places, cuban's,s, bloggers, face hardship.sending emails, for example, can take from half an hour to one hour, and the cost, it is very costly, and the internet at hotels and at cyber cafes, it costs around 160 paces -- pesos, which is about $6, almost one- third of a cuban monthly salary. bloggers say the internet is a little better. they can access a cluster of cuban websites. the dutch embassy and another offer a space where bloggers can go online, but there are some bloggers that shy away from going to embassies because they think that's they may be perceived as members of the political opposition. the cuban government has put in place a very regressive regulatory framework, and it has explicit censorship rules described in a decree in 1996. online information is restricted also through a commission charged with regulating information that comes from worldwide information webb's and insuring cybersecurity and defense. -- webs and ensurimng cybersecurity and defense. internet service providers are obligated to adopt necessa

the cuban troops took over the portuguese empire in the mid-70's.and energy shocks and stagflation. all kinds of stuff. i think the mood was embattled. now the mood changes when reagan wins in 1980. but the first few years were grim. >> now when you are at national review in the early years and finishing the full-on bill buckley charm that you learn is a mixed blessing. talk about that a little bit. . . so, to reinforce this, a year later he said, let's talk. i want to talk with you outside the office. and i thought we were going to lunch around the corner, but instead we go to mexico city and then to taxco. that was his ideao f getting away from it all. and there he sort of underlined the offer. but this was to be the plan of my life then at age 23. i accepted it without demure. that shows you how young i was. and then i opened a letter from bill that said, i think you are not going to suceed. and i got ready to write this book, and i had papers and folders. and i found it. and i thought, what do i do with this man? how do i relate to this guy? >>

s. they're not so politically motivated. they're not so confrontational. did not criticize the government harshly, but they examine issues that cubans face daily.ritical, but not confrontational. this may be another aspect of the issue. but taking into account what happened with the independent press as they gain more authority, finally, the government decided in 2003 that it was enough and they launched a massive crackdown. i do not think this can be precluded. we may see a future that some of these bloggers will be sent to jail. >> just briefly on the generational disconnect, i think -- just a clear point that if there is any big political lesson that we can take away from internal politics in 2009 is that the old guard is still on top. castro is still running the country in his late 70's, and the no. 2 figure in the government is a i you're older than role -- is a year older than him. you have the dismissal of their people and i think there is clearly a mass of generational gap between the cuban leadership and its new generation that is coming up. and there is a technological gap as well. that being said, i think the cuban government has lea

1990's and got a lot of recognitions by publishing their stories, mainly on web sites in the unit states and europe, this does not preclude the fact that a major crackdown may happen. >> under cubanly forbidden, depending on what one rights, they could fall under that phrase and there could be penalties that come with that. thank you. >> i have a question related to sell phones. video has been important. cell phones are important. that is not just in cuba, but throughout latin america. cell phones are becoming a way to access the internet and post things. how is their access to sophos? how does cuba restricted? -- to sell phones? how does to restrict it? -- how is their acces to cellphones? how does cuba restrict it? >> there is a blogger that addresses some of the u.s. contracting and advisers who are advising the u.s. government on how to provide this kind of global connectivity to cubans. absence makes the heart grow fonder. the fact that a lot of young kids are missing this technology does not make them more ignorant. it makes a more knowledgeable than we can be. i have a blackberry and i do not what to do -- and i do not know what to do. they can make a car work for 50 years