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Now we know why the Castro regime insists that ordinary Cubans need a rarely-issued government permit before they are allowed to buy a personal computer.

And why Cubans are restricted from using the Internet.

It has nothing to do with the paranoid Communist regime wanting to keep a tight rein on what Cubans can and cannot read – or write.

Not at all.

It’s because Fidel Castro is worried about radiation from computers and mobile phones, according to message read out on Cuban television last night supposedly written by the seriously ill dictator.

That’s right. Radiation from computers and mobile phones.

You can read it here, in Spanish.