[NYTr] US Hostility Hits Cuba Broadcasting

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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US Hostility Hits Cuba Broadcasting

Havana, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) The RadioCuba company had to pay almost
$800,000 more in purchases from distant markets to ensure broadcasting
due to the blockade by the United States.

The tentacles of almost 50-year US blockade against the island grabbed
this company, in charge of radio and TV transmissions.

According to a document on damages caused by the Washington hostility
in telecommunications, RadioCuba was obliged to purchase parts in
Europe to re-establish the TV AM broadcasting towers felled by
hurricanes.

"If we had purchased them in the US their cost would not have surpassed
$3.9 million, but through third nations their price tag was jacked up
by 20 percent, that is $780,000 more," states the text.

Those losses do not include other damages, according to information by
the island's report to the UN secretary general on the necessity to put
an end to the Washington blockade.

But those radio-electric signals in Cuba have also been affected by the
transmission of the so-called Radio and Television Marti, which
blatantly violate the International Telecommunication Union's rules.

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