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Cuba denounces "US radio and TV aggression"

US international broadcasting was the focus of attention at the United
Nations yesterday, during a debate on information. The Cuban ambassador
to the UN, Rodrigo Malmierca, took the opportunity to denounce the
Radio and TV Martí broadcasts beamed into Cuba by the US. The
ambassador called the broadcasts illegal, and said that they "encourage
illegal immigration and civil disobedience and blatantly distort the
country's reality."

Malmierca said further that the broadcasts are a "crude aggression"
against his country, on which Washington spends millions of dollars
every year, in total disregard of UN General Assembly resolutions,
international law and International Telecommunication Union
regulations.

The Cuban ambassador said the US Republican Administration of President
George W Bush has resorted to various media in this radio-electronic
war, as part of its "obsessive, unhealthy policy" to destroy the Cuban
Revolution. "We will not allow our sovereignty to be ridden roughshod
over, especially by absurd US pro-annexation ambitions," he said.

TYSIA SAID

Fidel is free to broadcast back, and does. I get a stronger signal from
Havana than I do from the nearest Florida station.

Keith SAID


.... The number and rate of approvals from Cuba have been declining
despite the lure of big bucks in Florida, Somalia and the Ukraine have
now passed CUBANS leaving for the BIG BUCKS

Many cubans send Us dollars home to Havana


Fidel has never wanted Families to be apart but knows for many the Big
Bucks are handy as are economic refugees


To his credit He subsidises phone calls to relatives

Each year 60 million attempts are made to telephone Cuba from the US;
only 500,000 get through. Just 79 lines are available because, since
1962, the US has prohibited all commercial dealings with Fidel
Castro's government. Since 1966 the Cubans have not received their
share of the price of the calls, estimated to be worth at least $60
million.

So over 20 years... Thats a Big Phone Bill the USA wont Pay