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This dissertation looks at what Fidel Castro’s Cuban Communist Party said about information and communication technologies (ICTs) through its official voice, Granma, from 1989 to 1999. It explores the development and implementation of ICTs through the lens of an authoritarian, illiberal, anti-capitalist state; it presents printed evidence of how the Cuban state framed these new technologies and how it presented them to its population; and it also probes into the widely accepted, end-of-century truism that global communication networks are a democratizing agent.