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Corruption in the empire’s media
campaign against Latin America
Jean-Guy Allard
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VOICE of the Americas (VOA) is “expanding its
penetration” in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and
Nicaragua, a Miami newspaper has revealed. With this
objective, the radio station that broadcasts U.S.
propaganda worldwide is to requisition Radio/TV
Martí production facilities.
“Our
focus is on the Andean region, because of the
upheavals that are going on there,” Cuban-American
Alberto Mascaró, director of VOA’s Spanish division,
informed El Nuevo Herald collaborator Juan O. Tamayo.
That
information has to be true. Several Nuevo Herald
journalists have been exposed in the past for their
well paid collaborative work with Radio/TV Martí.
For
his part, Juan O. Tamayo has been contracted for the
last few months by ICCAS, an organization directed
by former CIA analyst Jaime Suchlicki and heavily
subsidized by USAID to carry out “studies” on Cuba.
VOA
is already penetrating the geographical region with
its Made in the USA information that favors
oligarchical interests.
According to Tamayo, “It has 319 affiliated radio
stations in the Andean region which broadcast its
free programs: 199 in Bolivia, 77 in Colombia, and
seven each in Ecuador and Peru.”
VOA
is obliged to observe standards of “accuracy,
balance, comprehensiveness and objectivity,” the
article assures, citing Pedro Roig’s relative.
There is no doubt that this “impartial” State
Department agency has dedicated itself to that aim
of “objectivity,” for years in Venezuela, “attacking
the economy by circulating false information about
supply shortages, confiscation programs on the part
of the Bolivarian government, movements in the
barracks, and news on the ‘documented’ corruption of
officials,” as Web Apporrea’s online site notes.
To
achieve its objectives, VOA is to utilize the
Radio/TV Martí’s production facilities, which,
according to the Miami Mafioso newspaper, has
fuelled “speculation that the Martí stations are to
be taken over by VOA.” Radio and TV Martí have been
shaken by various corruption scandals over the last
few years.
The
most interesting piece of information is that
Alberto Mascaró, who announced VOA’s new direction,
is none less than the nephew of the wife of Pedro
Roig, director general of Radio/TV Martí, a
corporation notorious for hiring friends of its
capos.
Former director of the Inter-American Military
Academy in Miami, Roig was trained by the CIA in
Fort Benning alongside the international terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles, as a hired killer for
Operation 40, involved in the failed Bay of Pigs
invasion.
In
August, Pedro Roig, who has always found jobs for
his clan, fired 35 of the corporation’s employees,
whose job content was to manufacture anti-Cuba
slander which he subsequently was unable to
broadcast.
Incredibly, the anti-Cuba propaganda stations
Radio/TV Martí have some 170 employees and a 2009
budget of $34.8 million. Yet they have not been able
to broadcast their programming in Cuba despite
frequent ridiculous attempts. However, the Spanish
division of VOA has 21 employees and a 2009 budget
of $3.1 million to transmit imperial propaganda to
the whole of Latin America.
While the United States is experiencing its worst
crisis since the 1930s, it is still providing plenty
of money for the dirty imperial war on Latin
America. •
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