From: dxxb@milton.u.washington.edu (David W. Barts)
Subject: RHC MW broadcasts (fwd)
Reply-To: dxxb@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 09:13:41 GMT

[ Forwarded from misc.activism.progressive. ]

>From ceniai!radiohc Thu Apr  9 12:10:56 1992

!CUBANEWS FROM RADIO HAVANA CUBA       April 4, 1992

The following item is taken from RADIO HAVANA CUBA's
International Shortwave Service in English for Saturday, April 4,
1992.

-FIDEL CASTRO ANNOUNCES CUBAN RADIO BEING BROADCAST TO U.S.A.

Havana, April 4(RHC)--President Fidel Castro announced tonight
that Cuban radio is broadcasting to the United States. In
response to new attempts by Washington to beam anti-Cuban
television into the island, President Castro said that Cuba now
has decided to broadcast its own radio to the U.S. public. "The
U.S. administration," he said,"is not satisfied with the 500 hours
of hostile radio propaganda already transmitted to Cuba every
week from U.S. shores.  Washington isn't satisfied,"he
continued, with its 30-year blockade against the island, nor with
its attempts to stop Cuba from freely trading and developing.
Now U.S. authorities are again trying to get their hostile
television signal into our country."

He called this an "especially cynical move", since the U.S.
broadcast, which began last Wednesday, is moving in on Cuban
channels left vacant in early afternoon hours precisely because
of shortages in oil-generated electricity here on the island.

Washington says its purpose is to keep the Cuban people informed,
noted Fidel Castro.  So now, he announced, we assume the same
right to "keep the U.S. public informed, a public disinformed
about the world, and especially about Cuba." He said "certain
Cuban radio stations" would be broadcasting to the United States.

The media onslaught against Cuba began with so-called Radio Marti
in 1985, and was followed by its partner Telemarti in 1990.  Both
are official broadcasts of the U.S. government, and have been
declared illegal by the International Frequency Regulation Board
in Geneva, since they occupy frequencies assigned to Cuban radio
and television for domestic use.

Cuba has objected to the broadcasts from the start, and has
jammed the television and AM radio signals.  At one point, Cuban
authorities even attempted to negotiate an exchange of radio
programming with the United States, with no results.  Cuba says
the issue is not one of influence on the island's public--
although the Washington-based stations do openly broadcast calls
for subversion and sabotage--but an issue of sovereignty.  And
Cuba points out that every radio on the island is equipped with
shortwave bands, allowing Cubans a total range of legal
international broadcasts, including those from the United States.

In his remarks tonight at the closing of the Union of Young
Communists' Sixth Congress, President Fidel Castro also said that
he holds Washington responsible for any difficulties or incidents
that arise due to the situation it has caused.  "Some
things, he said, "are just plain intolerable."

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David Barts  N5JRN			UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
dxxb@u.washington.edu			Seattle, WA  98195