The Cuban government is launching its own online encyclopaedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting its view of the world and history.
The new Spanish language website will be officially launched later on Tuesday but it is already up and running with nearly 20,000 entries on ecured.cu
The site says the aim is to spread knowledge without a profit motive.
Updates will apparently be allowed with the administrators' approval but it is not clear who actually runs the site.
Founded in 2001 in Cuba's long-time ideological enemy, the United States, Wikipedia is a multilingual, free-content encyclopaedia.
It encourages editorial changes from everybody who comes to the site, although restrictions exist on about 2,000 controversial articles.
Wikipedia has more than 3.5 million entries in English and 682,000 in Spanish, and some attracts 78 million visitors a month.
