CUBA Denounces US Radio, TV Aggression

[magbana]

Cuba Denounces US Radio, TV Aggression

United Nations, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuba denounced the sustained US radio and TV aggression on Tuesday, and highlighted the recent support of the World Radiocommunication Conference.

The conference, held in Geneva in November, concluded that broadcasting to Cuba from US aircraft is in violation of the Radiocommunication Regulations, said Ileana Nunez, Cuban ambassador to the UN.

Speaking during the UN Information Committee debate, the Cuban diplomat explained that every week, US-based networks broadcast 1,889 hours of programs to the Island through 30 medium and short waves, FM and TV channels.

They generate 228-253 hours of programs daily, which have nothing to do with balanced, objective information, said Nunez.

She recalled that for fiscal year 2007, the US Congress approved a budget of $36.10 million to fund actions against Cuba, "showing complete disregard for regulations ruling international relations."

She added that 14 of the 19 networks broadcasting anti-Cuban subversive programs aim their signals directly at the Island, including three owned by the US Government itself (Voice of America and Radio and TV Marti).

She denounced that some of these networks belong or serve organizations linked to well-known US-based terrorist elements who act against Cuba with total consent of US authorities.

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[Mika]

1. Once again, the W admin proves the US to be a rogue nation.

America über alles.




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[Vogon_Glory]

2. WHAAANNNH! WHAAANNNH! WHAAANNNH!

So Cuban diplomats are protesting US so-called "broadcast aggression." What a bunch of crybabies!

Unlike the hard-core Cosmic Commie Killers of the worst part of the Cold War raging against shortwave broadcasts from Radio Moscow and the Soviet Union, and unlike today's starry-eyed Castro groupies, I strongly believe in the free flow of information and ideas. If, as the Havana regime's leading DU apologists have unctuously and repeatedly claimed, the Hvana regime is truly democratic, then neither the Havana regime nor the Cuban people have nothing to fear from whatever the US broadcasts in Cuba's direction, whether it's from Radio Marti or south Florida radio stations broadcasting for the local market. After all, as all of us have noted, the Havana regime has been firmly in the saddle for nearly fifty years now and Cuban listeners have the revolutionary consciousness to sort out the extra-territorial chaff from THE TRUTH.

If, on the other hand, as many DU'ers and I believe, Cuba is a partially-closed society ruled by an oppressive one-party state, claims of "broadcast aggression" are shabbily-disguised pleadings by a regime determined to censor, conceal, and hide information and alternate viewpoints from its put-upon citizenry.

In some cases, some more "broadcast aggression" would be a good thing indeed. During Gee Dubya Bush's and Tom DeLay's recent effort to establish a one-party state here in the US, most progressives watched in dismay as the broadcast and cable news networks went to contemptible lengths and beyond to suck up to the White House and congressional Republicans and all too many press organizations became little better than extensions of Executive Branch and Republican National Committee propaganda offices.

Better alternatives to the sorry-a@@ "coverage" by the corporate media would be a good thing. More "broadcast imperialism" from the BBC, al Jazeera, Agence France Press, Germany, the Canadian Broadcasting Network and even Cuba would be a useful antidote to what we get from the likes of MSNBC and Newscorp's Faux Noise.

:dem:

[Mika]

3. What a crock! The US broadcasts are in violation of international law.

Seems that the pro Bush policy factions will stoop to any low to defend American exceptionalism.

Suddenly, those who object to US aggression and violations of law against the tiny island sovereign nation are now "starry-eyed Castro groupies". A classic cold warrior red baiting attack from yesteryear.

As usual, the contingent of DU's pro Bush Cuba policy apologists have ZERO actual experience in Cuba, never been to Cuba, and communicate with no Cubans in Cuba. They, along with corporate media giants, have chosen to regurgitate the shop worn cold war propaganda in their rush to defend illegal tactics that undermine and violate international agreements, while having no clue as to the actual range of media available to Cubans in Cuba. Like the rhetoric that surrounded the Iraq invasion and occupation - Bushco tactics based on adamant ignorance (or willful disinformation tactics).

VogonG, I know you don't support the embargo and travel sanctions, but why defend the indefensible with little or no understanding of the topic? It smacks of knee-jerk Cubaphobia, or starry-eyed support of American exceptionalism.


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[Bacchus39]

4. what is Cuba's policy on freedom of the press, internet access, and use of pressure cookers?

out with the old, in with the new. Cuba gets a fresh new look as leader.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Mika is right. You are obsessed with your pressure cooker bullshit.

What's up with the pressure cooker crap you keep posting about?

Pressure cookers have been a mainstay in Cuban kitchen cooking for decades. It's a way to save energy, and used to cook quickly because of power shortages in the 90's. I know this because I have been to Cuba several times during that period.

[Bacchus39]

6. I'm glad they are allowed now

just shows you how progressive Cuba is. Cubans can also buy computers now, cell phones, and dvd players. (I am sure they can find loads of movies on black market. even banned ones. goodness, that might be risky!!!) One day they may even be given unrestricted access to the net. who knows?

maybe next they'll allow the sale of life preservers for all the raft trips.

[Mika]

7. They always have.

The government has been subsidizing cookers for decades.

But you know that.