{"id":16383,"date":"2015-12-22T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16383"},"modified":"2015-12-22T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:16:22","slug":"castro-wants-an-end-to-us-broadcasts-directed-at-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/castro-wants-an-end-to-us-broadcasts-directed-at-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Castro wants an end to US broadcasts directed at Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Havana,

Havana, Cuba (Photo: Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: VOA News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Cuban President Raul Castro is urging the U.S. government to stop radio and television broadcasts that Cuba considers harmful, while also saying that his government is willing to keep improving relations with the United States.<\/p>\n

In a speech broadcast on state television Friday, Castro said that his government will “continue insisting that to reach normalized relations, it is imperative that the United States government eliminate all of these policies from the past.”<\/p>\n

He noted that the U.S. government continues to broadcast to Cuba, including transmissions of Radio Marti and TV Marti, despite Cuba’s objections. Radio Marti and TV Marti are overseen by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is also the parent organization of the Voice of America.<\/p>\n

Castro also criticized U.S. immigration policy that allows Cuban migrants to live in the United States if they reach U.S. territory.<\/p>\n

“A preferential migration policy continues to be applied to Cuban citizens, which is evidenced by the enforcement of the wet foot\/dry foot policy, the Medical Professional Parole Program and the Cuban Adjustment Act, which encourage an illegal, unsafe, disorderly and irregular migration, foment human smuggling and other related crimes, and create problems to other countries,” Castro said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading on\u00a0VOA News online…<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: VOA News) Cuban President Raul Castro is urging the U.S. government to stop radio and television broadcasts that Cuba considers harmful, while also saying that his government is willing to keep improving relations with the United States. In a speech broadcast on state television Friday, Castro said that his government will “continue insisting that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[406,936,1106,1396,184,1212,10,1742,182],"class_list":["post-16383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbg","tag-broadcasting-board-of-governors","tag-ibb","tag-radio-havana-cuba","tag-radio-marti","tag-rhc","tag-voa","tag-voa-news","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4gf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11813,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/an-swl-perspective-on-uscuba-relations\/","url_meta":{"origin":16383,"position":0},"title":"An SWL perspective on US\/Cuba relations","author":"Thomas","date":"December 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, London Shortwave, who has posted an article on his blog regarding\u00a0US\/Cuba relations after Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced, last Tuesday, the re-establishment\u00a0of relations. 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