After weeks of resistance from Cuban video

gamers, the island’s state-run computer

organization will absorb the services of an

offline underground network that for more than

a decade extended privately in Havana.

The state’s Youth Computer Club will take

control of SNET — a merging of the words

Street and Network — thanks to a law that came

into force in late July and authorizes Cubans

to have private networks, while paradoxically

dismantling the largest of them.

CUBAN STATE

TO ABSORB

UNDERGROUND

VIDEO-GAMERS’

NETWORK

Image: Adalberto Roque