![]() Paquete subscribers pay between $1 and $3 per week to receive the collection of media. It’s a competitive market playing out in the shadows of a tightly controlled communist economy. They compete to develop the best collection of weekly digital content in the fastest turnaround time possible for their subscribers. ![]() There are two Paquete kingpins in Havana: Dany and Ali. Check out the video above to see how Cubans bypass censorship to access the media we take for granted. I went behind the scenes in Havana to film how El Paquete works. It is a prodigious and profitable operation. "El Paquete Semanal" (the Weekly Package) is a weekly trove of digital content -everything from American movies to PDFs of Spanish newspapers - that is gathered, organized, and transferred by a human web of runners and dealers to the entire country. ![]() But in typical Cuban fashion, the law doesn't stop a vast underground system of entertainment and news media distributors and consumers. Publications are limited to the state-approved newspapers and magazines. ![]() Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited.
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