This from
http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/hist-eng.html its rather political and
anti-US as you would expect but they do play good music as well.

Radio Havana Cuba, the first Cuban international shortwave radio station,
was officially inaugurated on May 1, 1961. Born as an alternative to
international news agencies and stations that distort the image of the
island's revolutionary process, since its founding, Radio Havana Cuba has
been an authentic Cuban voice devoted to broadcasting the island's social,
economy and political panorama.

It broadcast to the world accurate and timely information on the Bay of Pigs
invasion in April of that year, perpetrated by US-trained mercenaries. That
US aggression was repelled by the Cuban people in less than 72 hours.

In view of international news agencies' silence on US-backed aggressions, on
April 16th, 1961 speaking at the funeral of the victims of US bombings on
Cuban airports, Cuban President Fidel Castro said: "Do they really believe
they will be able to hide it from the world? ... No, Cuba already has a
radio station which is broadcasting to all Latin America, and this is being
heard by innumerable brothers and sisters in Latin America and the world
over." This was the station's introduction to the world.

The Cuban radio station has grown in its more than 35 years, and its voice
can be picked up today in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.
Its language has also become universal. From two hours of transmissions in
Spanish and English when it began, it currently broadcasts 30 hours daily in
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Creole, Arabic, Guarani and Quechua,
and two and a half additional hours in Esperanto on Sundays.

Radio Havana Cuba's programming deals with a wide range of issues on the
Cuban and international scenes and it has reached its peak with coverage of
such events as the Malvinas conflict, the US invasions of the Dominican
Republic, Grenada and Panama and the international campaign for the release
of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Radio Havana Cuba offered an
alternative view on the Gulf War and was rewarded with the attention of
thousands of listeners from around the world.

At this moment, RHC has become an indispensable source of information on the
process of economic reforms taking place in Cuba and on the island's dynamic
social and political scenario brought to listeners in the voices of the
newsmakers themselves: high ranking government officials, foreign investors,
members of cooperatives, workers, campesinos and the self-employed, among
others.

Our P.O Box 6240 in Havana receives thousands of letters from all over the
world every year, which are answered one by one by our Correspondence
Department.

For some, Cuba is simply news, but for others it is a friend in the
Caribbean. Radio Havana Cuba's programming is both, reporting with integrity
and honesty all issues it tackles.

For all these reasons we invite you to tune in to the alternative signal of
Radio Havana Cuba, the friendly voice that tours the world.



Radio Havana Cuba, English Department, P.O. Box 6240 - Havana, Cuba
Telephone: 53-7-814243 Fax: 53-7-812927
E-Mail: WWW: http://www.radiohc.org