"Bob Haberkost" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"Drew A. Durigan" wrote in message
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After reading this group, I decided to check it out for myself last
night.

Here in Orlando, the Cuban signal on 560 is completely obliterating
WQAM.

WQAM is in English. There is no need to jam it.

David....wouldn't Cubans looking to get propaganda-free radio from the U-S
(not that
this ideal is as easy to attain, anymore) be willing to learn English so
as to listen
to it? I think you're a bit too dismissive of the suggestion.

Since the very early 60's, it has been necessary to have a permit to learn
English, and such permits are only delivered to those that have a
government-mandated need to learn.

Russian was the second language in Cuban schools since that time, and only
recently, in the last decade, has been abandoned.

Listening to US radio or TV is punishable by being declared an anticocial
element, which reduces one's rations, makes many types of unemployment
unattainable, and even affects where and whether one gets housing.

While many will make the effort to hear Radio Marti, as proven by surveys of
emigrants who have left Cuba, it is really unlikely that many know enough
English to understand the very colloquial English of WQAM, would risk doing
so if they could, or would find anything at all of any interest to them even
if they did listen.

Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship.