Sixty-five years ago, on March 3, 1959, a few weeks after the triumph of the Revolution, the Cuban Telephon e Company, a US consortium of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT), which controlled the telephone service almost since the establishment of that technology in the country, was intervened.
Such a measure by the Revolutionary Government was not free of charge and responded to an old desire of the Cuban people to fight against the imperialist exploitation of the nation’s basic services.
Years later, declassified U.S. government documents revealed that ITT was part of the front of U.S. companies and interests established in Cuba that would economically and with their resources support officials and facilities, in what constituted the first covert actions of the CIA applied since 1959 against the young Cuban social project.
This company was also responsible for what may have been the last public support for the dictatorship, when its directors, together with other representatives of Cuban companies, gave Fulgencio Batista a solid gold telephone as a thank you for supporting that monopoly th
