From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: CUBA: World Assoc of Community Radios: End U.S. Blockade
Date: 4 Sep 92 05:07:30 GMT
Followup-To: alt.activism
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis


In <1992Sep3.120800.3890@desire.wright.edu> Brett writes:

>In article <9209030152.AA11839@poly.math.cornell.edu>, 
harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU >(misc.activism.progressive co-moderator) writes:
...
>>
>> Havana, September 1 (RHC)--  Close to 500 radio stations from 51
>> countries have called for an end to the US blockade.  In a
>> resolution adopted at the 5th World Association of Community
>> Radio Stations Conference, participants agreed to send letters to
>> the Latin American  presidents to mediate in favor of Cuba.
>>
[...]
>>
>> Alternative methods and means of communications is one of the key
>> issues on the agenda.  The event runs through Friday.

>        One wonders if Castro's blockading of communications between Cuba and
>the US will be discussed.

Of course they will!  It will certainly be along the following lines:

"Yanqui imperialism, through its exile groups in South Florida, and under the 
leadership CIA agents have been continuously trying to bombard Cuban radiowaves 
with counterrevolutionary propaganda which cannot be construed but as a 
violation of Cuba's right to self determination and its sovereignty.  The Cuban 
government has been forced to retaliate against this act of agression by 
jamming the frequencies under which these worms operate, thus impeding 
counterrevolutionary messages from reaching the free territory of Cuba!!  

Long live our revoultionary radio jammers!  
Long live freedom of speech and press in Cuba!  
End US radio and TV agression against Cuba!
Hands of Cuban radios!"

Heh heh heh...

I'm still nostalgic about radio broadcast which were easily tuned in the AM 
band throughout the Caribbean.  Radio Havana and Radio Moscow would begin their 
hourly newscast with sounds of an army band immediately announcing how many 
Salvadorean soldiers had been killed in FMLN ambushes.  The "news" was follwed 
by programs on  Cuban life which would be the envy of Radio Berlin in 1939.  
Then there was Radio Rebelde, with more "popular" revoultionary music.    
However, the most hilarious act in these transmission was the female voice of 
the broadcaster (Havanna Rose?) which said: "Transmitiendo desde Cuba: 
!territorio libre de America!".  It is so free, in fact, that they can't let 
the population listen to the CIA for fears that they might believe them in 
spite of being the most educated country in the world.  Paranoia at its very 
best!. Just recently, I hear that radio Moscow has abandoned transmissions from 
the island and that same has happend with transmission of Radio Havanna in 
Europe.  Perhaps this is why they're talking about "alternative" radio 
transimssions.  Lacking retrasmitters they are looking for "community" radio 
stations to be their ideological relays in the civilized world.

Well, my  transmission ends here,

Edelmiro

Transmitiendo de desde Davis, !Territorio libre de America!
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