"Mike Terry" wrote in message
...
Cuban-American lawmakers cheered Saturday as U.S. military aircraft
transmitted Radio and TV Martí to Cuban audiences -- one of the Bush
administration's new tactics to undermine the Castro regime.

''For the people of Cuba to get an unfiltered transmission of information
is
a great thing,'' said U.S. Senate candidate Mel Martínez, who co-chaired
the
presidential commission that recommended the flights.

Martínez said White House staffers called to deliver the news that C-130
cargo planes had managed to override jamming efforts by the island's
communist government.

President Bush allocated $18 million in May to pay for the flights, though
lawmakers said the frequency and timing of future broadcasts would remain
classified.

''It's a wonderful day for the enslaved Cuban people, and I'm sure Castro
is
enraged and finding new and devious ways to block the transmissions,''
said
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9463711.htm?1c


I expect that there are a lot of Americans, descendents of slaves, who would
question whether the Cuban people are "enslaved." They may be poor, some
even impoverished, and they live under Communist rule, but they are not
enslaved.