Facing limited internet options, high costs and low speeds, Cubans are creating workarounds to get online. Since 2014, the government has opened hundreds of public Wi-Fi hot spots for Cubans and tourists who visit the island. But for many Cubans, the costs to get online are too high. And when they do, many find the connection speeds too slow. That's why some Cubans are creating workarounds to get online. The World’s Marco Werman interviewed Antonio García Martínez, who reported on these workarounds for Wired. The "hacks" include el paquete semanal (“the weekly package”). “Every week, more than a terabyte of data is packaged into external hard drives known as el paquete semanal ('the weekly package'). It is the internet distilled down to its purest, most consumable, and least interactive form: its content. This collection of video, song, photo, and text files from the outside world is cobbled together by various media smugglers known as paqueteros, and it travels around the island from
