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[HCDX] Radio/TV Marti' has now cost more than $500 million
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.
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http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
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Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
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