Weapon of Freedom: Satellite Dishes

From Ray Sanchez at the Sun-Sentinel:
 
While Washington has now authorized satellite radio and television service links with the island, many Cubans doubt the communist state will allow a greater flow of information. Authorities restrict satellite TV and Internet services, so many hookups are illegal and signals pirated.

Concealed on rooftops, balconies or just inside opened windows throughout the capital, thousands of illegal satellite antennas have become a way for Cubans to circumvent the government's tight grip on entertainment and information.

The state has justified repeated crackdowns on illegal hookups on grounds that programming by U.S.-financed TV Marti and some Miami-based commercial Spanish-language stations was "destabilizing and interventionist and ... aimed at destroying the revolution and with it the Cuban nation."