HAVANA: Cuban folk star Silvio Rodriguez urged US President Barack Obama and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to provide free Internet to developing countries. “It's a simple proposal: the world is very unequal, and a lot of pain could be avoided with action that could turn into a worldwide qualitative step forward,” Rodriguez said in a blog post at segundacita.blogspot.com. “I am sure that it is something within reach of privileged minds (and budgets). “So you owners of the Internet and President Obama: build a satellite network to give free Internet to the developing world,” wrote the 63-year-old singer.