A rare video of students publicly protesting to the Cuban Parliamentary President at the University of Cuba has made it off the island and into the hands of western media. The information was captured and transmitted by an underground movement of cyber-rebels who are using technological devices such memory sticks, camera phones, and hole-and-corner internet hookups to publicize the government’s limitations on its people. The insurgents are speaking out against bans on travel, lack of access to communication tools like Google, and the extremely low pay that handcuffs its citizens to the island. In the video after the jump, student council representatives Alejandro Hernandez and Eliecer Avila (who are both hot, btw) pose a series of challenges to President of Cuban Parliamentary Ricardo Alarcon.

In the video, Eliecer Avila, a Cuban student representative, questions the low salaries of the workers, in his home town. Remarking that people have to work two days to afford a toothbrush, he challenges, “What if I want to raise enough money to go to Bolivia to visit where El Che [Guevara] lived?”

Good one!

“That could take an entire life of saving,” he continues. “30,000 Cuban pesos is 1,000 dollars. That could take a whole life to save working the fields.”

Or just a few thousand Che t-shirts at an indie music festival, güey. We know a guy who can ship them to you cheap from Taiwan.

President of Cuban Parliamentary Ricardo Alarcon, sounding kind of like your grandfather convincing you to mow the lawn, attempts to quell to the students complaints by explaining that if everyone traveled, there would be no air space.

Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State’s Limits [New York Times]