Cubans look to US détente for better Web access

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: An Internet cafe in Havana. Most Cubans lack Internet access at home, but many hope this will change after the United States offered to bolster the communist island

HAVANA: Alfredo Castellano travels half an hour to Havana twice a week to write e-mails in a computer centre with a Fidel Castro poster outside and aging machines inside. 

Like most Cubans, he lacks Internet access at home, but many hope this will change after the United States offered to bolster the communist island’s tightly-controlled telecommunications as part of a historic diplomatic détente.