{"article":{"id":110235,"heading":"US Use of Warplanes Adds Dangerous Element to Cuba Relations","author":"Prensa Latina","created":"2004-05-14 18:17:06","modified":"2013-11-11 00:29:44","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:29:44","article":"
The decision of the Bush administration to use C-130 Air Force military
planes to increment subversive broadcasts to Cuba raises the temperature of
already heated bilateral relations. Although all the new destabilizing measures
are aggressive, use of a warplane is especially alarming due to the real risk of
incidents on the maritime frontier between the two countries. US invasion of
Cuban radio-electronic space began in 1960 with 20-hour a day programming that
was a virtual weapon, including messages to secret agents and saboteurs to carry
out terrorist actions on the Island. The situation escalated under Ronald
Reagan, who initiated powerful transmissions by the misnomered Radio Marti;
ill-named because Cubans are particularly offended by use of national hero Jose
Marti´s name in such connection, as Marti repeatedly warned of the dangers to
Cuba and Latin America from \"the monster of the North.\" George Bush
Senior added to the insults with TV Marti broadcasts in Spanish, but the Cuban
government has limited itself to technically impeding the signals and denouncing
the invasion to international organizations and at world fora, particularly the
International Telecommunications Union. In this context, Cuban analysts have
warned of the danger of C-130s flying in anti-Cuban actions, including the risk
of a mechanical difficulty or other accident that could provoke an unforeseeable
outcome.\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Havana.-","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/05\/110235.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}