[HCDX] Radio/TV Marti' has now cost more than $500 million

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Radio/TV Marti' has now cost more than $500 million
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/marzo/vier16/12fiasco.html
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD ?Special for Granma International?

WHILE the United States is accumulating debts and experts are 
predicting a perilous deterioration of the budget crisis, the fiasco of 
Radio and TV Marti' ? that cannot even be seen ? has now cost the 
taxpayer more than $500 million.

Since its creation in 1985, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) ? the 
mother-ship of Radio and TV Marti' ? has constituted a mechanism for 
corruption to which various politicians are fairly closely linked, as a 
Congress commission should be able to verify when it investigates, at 
the initiative of representatives Bill Delahunt and Jeff Flake, this branch 
of Voice of America.

However, the commission need only observe, by analyzing the history 
of this CIA creature, that throughout its 22-year existence, its only result 
has been to offer sinecures and funding to Batista fanatics linked to the 
Bush clan, who tolerate, plan or sponsor the use of terror against Cuba.

A report published exactly one year ago by the Council on Hemispheric 
Affairs (COHA), a respected Washington-based think-tank, showed 
how several attempts to reduce the lavish OCB budgets clashed with 
?massive recriminations and even open threats from the deadly 
politicians of Miami? led by the Diaz-Balart brothers and Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen.

Thos tantrums on the part of the trio of politicians could perhaps be 
explained by a ?brilliant strategy? based on the contributions they 
receive, COHA noted.

It went on to say that through an alchemic process, hundreds of 
thousands of dollars in private campaign contributions to the White 
House and Congress members are transformed into hundreds of 
millions of dollars of public funds for programs passed by Congress 
used to finance anti-Castro groups.

ONE CORRUPT INDIVIDUAL REPLACES ANOTHER

When the corrupt Salvador Lew resigned from his post as OCB director 
after countless criticisms, his godfather George W. Bush chose current 
director Pedro Roig to replace him, a man just as corrupt as his 
predecessor.

With exemplary calm, Lew explained away his departure by saying he 
had health problems, without making the slightest reference to a report 
by the Inspector General that showed the indiscriminate contracting of 
a number of his buddies, all of them characterized by their links with the 
Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.

It has since been learned that among the most distinguished 
beneficiaries of the dozens of ?juicy tidbits? distributed by Lew, we find:

? Olga Connor, columnist at El Nuevo Herald, who ?charged? for two 
cultural programs, each one hour long, the ?modest? sum of $45,770.

? Armando Pe'rez Roura, notorious member of the Alpha 66 and Cuban 
Unity groups.

? The late Rafael Di'az-Balart, former deputy minister of Governance 
during the bloody dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and the father of the 
afore-mentioned Congressmen.

? Nancy Pe'rez-Crespo, eminent Miami ringleader who shares the mike 
with her friend Ninoska (Lucrecia) Pe'rez-Castello'n, daughter and wife 
of Batista terrorists, and director of the terrorist Cuban Liberty Council..

HIS REFERENCE: A BUDDY OF MAS CANOSA, ?THE CAT? AND 
POSADA

In order to secure the post ? with a salary of $132,000 per annum ? 
Pedro Roig did not have much to offer except his friendly links with 
Jorge Mas Canosa, founder of the Cuban-American National 
Foundation (CANF) and Radio Marti' that George Bush Sr. sponsored 
when he was a high-ranking member and subsequently director of the 
CIA.

At the beginning of the 1960s in Fort Benning, Roig and Mas were 
trained for dirty warfare in secret installations as part of the CIA?s 
Operation 40, with international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and 
Fe'lix ?The Cat? Rodri'guez Mendiguti'a, the CIA officer who was to 
order Che?s murder.

Born in Santiago de Cuba, just like Mas Canosa, Roig arrived in Florida 
as a child in 1960 and joined the Batista plots that abounded at that 
time among the e'migre' ranks.

A survey carried out at the request of the U.S. government showed 
some months ago that audience figures in Cuba for the radio station 
are at an all-time low. With respect to TV Marti', Salvador Lew himself 
acknowledged years ago that it is virtually ?off the air.?

However, the last straw was recently revealed by The Chicago Tribune: 
years after he bade his farewell due to corruption, Lew is still on the list 
of members of the OCB leadership? just like one Charles Tyroler, an 
intelligence official from the Reagan administration who died in 1995.

For his part, Luis Zu'n~iga Rey, executive member of the CLC and 
personal friend of George W. Bush, annually receives $100,00 as a 
member of this very same phantom body.

The Chicago daily recalled how Pedro Roig has contracted his wife?s 
nephew as head of personnel and is paying a former client of his as 
scriptwriter for a comedy show. Something Roig did not deny.

The most ridiculous act of the year, in 2006, was the purchase of an 
EC-130 military plane worth $10 million, whose only function was to 
confirm the dogma of TV Marti'?s invisibility. It is not known where this 
expensive piece of equipment is at this time.

In the course of the year, it was also discovered how the OCB paid a 
significant number of journalists who, locally, are the ones who write 
most about Cuba. Among these individuals we find Pablo Alfonso, who 
gobbled up $175,000 just like that, and the pseudo-intellectual and 
fugitive terrorist Carlos Alberto Montaner, who does not deny living off 
subsidies from the U.S. intelligence apparatus.

The first ridiculous act of 2007 is without doubt the conferring of 
$182,500 and $195,000, respectively, to Radio Mambi', WAQI-AM 
(710), and Azteca Ame'rica, WPMF-TV 38, for the broadcast of 
programs on the two moribund stations. Both enterprises, of course, 
are linked to members of the local mafia.

Simultaneously, ?El Chema? Miranda ? who was Program Director at 
TV Marti' until last November ? confessed in a criminal court in Miami 
to having received $112,000 in bribes from a production company that 
he himself had contracted.

To top it all, Fabio Leite, director of the Radiocommunications Office at 
the International Telecommunications Union, announced that illegal 
radio and television broadcasts from the United States to Cuba are 
unacceptable.

It has been predicted that Radio and TV Marti' and its network of 
buddies will receive $37 million this year, unless the Delahunt-Flake 
Commission manages to destroy this mafia refuge in Congress.

http://zlgr.multiply.com (raidio monitoring site plus audio clips )
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr    pictures upload 
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on my main : www.geocities.com/zliangas 
-tty-px.html : test of various TTY programs
-ethics.htm    : greek ethics , days and institutions 
-frape.htm: the greek way of cofee !!! 
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece 
greekdx @ otenet dot gr  ---  
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