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Related: About this forumCuba condemns U.S. radioelectronic aggression
GENEVA, January 23.Cuba has lodged a complaint before the World Radiocommunication Conference against increased U.S. radio and television aggression on the part of the United States.
Wilfredo López, regulations and standards director of the Cuban Ministry of Informatics and Communications, condemned Washingtons open violation of international law, and the provisions of the constitution, agreements and rules of radiocommunications.
Speaking at the first plenary session of the conference, López said that the U.S. continues broadcasting televised material into Cuba from a flying aircraft, property of the U.S. government. Additionally, these transmissions seriously interfere with national radio broadcasting, he noted.
The 2007 Radiocommunication Conference established that any radio broadcasting from aircraft transmitting exclusively to the territory of another country without its consent cannot be considered to be acting within radiocommunications regulations.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/news-i/24ener-radio.html
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)The crap they're getting shoved down their throats comes from the "exiles" in Miami. Because of the efforts of Jorge Mas Canosa, in the 1980's, to insinuate himself into the affections of Ronald Reagan, playing all those old "commie" cards, they created Radio and TV Marti, (named after the Cuban patriot who would have despised the "exiles" and built it in Miami, giving complete control for programming, and staffing to the Cuban "exile" community, and handed the bill to the U.S. taxpayers who pay a ton each year to bankroll that crap.
They have even had a program featuring two old farts talking, both parents of Cuban "exile" Congresspeople Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, one of them having worked as a lawyer for the United Fruit Company, then ended up in the cabinet of filthy scum-ridden Mafia consort and torture-loving, terrorist butcher Fulgencio Batista.
Day after day, Cubans were able, if they chose, to hear these two dirty old duffers reminiscing about the good old days in Cuba when black people knew their place, and Batista's death squads kept the population on pins and needles.
Nothing they can say would ever move Cubans to see that Miami infestation as anything beyond the name they already gave them long ago: "gusano."
They will fight anyone to the death over their "right' to keep running that propaganda channel which attempts to exhonerate the exiles and their filthy way of life which Cuba rejected long ago. They already claim Arizona Rep. David Skaggs as a casualty, to serve as a reminder to anyone else in Congress of what happens to any Congressman who dares to challenge their Radio or TV Marti's value to the U.S. taxpayers, and show it as a wholly stupid black hole for US taxdollars, as all the money poured into it each year goes directly to the "exiles" and no one but the "exiles."
Lincoln Diaz-Balart warned David Skaggs he would destroy every project he hoped to acquire for Arizona, then he got the powerful "exile" organization, Cuban American National Foundation to buy advertising in Arizona informing the voters that David Skaggs had failed to serve them properly, and Skaggs didn't run for election again. Skaggs said if anyone dares to buck that machine he's not going to have a good day. Pity.
The "exiles" surely love the ride they've been on since they got here, and the fact, as is often mentioned, their US taxpayer-funded group has acquired far more power than any one should ever be able to claim. Their power far exceeds their number, and they have had their noses in Lastin American/US politics from the first "exile" footstep on US soil.
Time for another revolution, this one right here. Let them follow the path taken by Fulgencio Batista: go to Spain.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Despite the sound and the fury concerning so-called "electronic aggression," I doubt that there's little real harm done. I suspect that Cuban listeners are a far more discerning audience than all too many of their US counterparts. They've probably listened to the US broadcasts, compared them to what information they get about the effects of Tea-Publican policies on the poor and less-connected in Rick Scott's Florida and elsewhere in the US, and have decided that Doctor Miami's patent-medicine tonic is not for them.