{"id":2733,"date":"2012-02-09T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2012-02-09T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T11:44:22","slug":"radio-republica-shortwave-broadcasting-247-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/radio-republica-shortwave-broadcasting-247-on-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Rep\u00fablica: shortwave broadcasting 24\/7 on a budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In this Miami Herald Op Ed piece, Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, the national secretary of the Cuban Democratic Directorate<\/a>, defends his organization and their clandestine station, Radio Republica<\/a>. It’s worth noting that in an effort to use their limited funds effectively, and to get their message into Cuba, they use shortwave radio as their medium of choice:<\/p>\n

(Source: Miami Herald<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Radio Rep\u00fablica, the Directorate\u2019s 24-hour, seven-day-a-week shortwave radio station, has provided a voice to Cuba\u2019s resistance from the smallest provincial towns to the largest Havana neighborhoods. Its format has been strategically designed to enhance the natural self-defense mechanism of nonviolent struggle generated by Cuban society. Costing between $1.5 million to $2 million a year, Radio Rep\u00fablica\u2019s budget accounts for over 50 percent of the Directorate\u2019s annual funds from federal grants. These costs are far below the annual budgets of both public and commercial shortwave radio stations.<\/p>\n

Likewise, it is undeniable that Directorio has made a vital contribution to the changing attitudes of the international community towards the Castro regime. The Cuban pro-democracy leadership has moved from international neglect to international recognition, winning prestigious awards like the European Parliament\u2019s Sakharov Prize and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in the process.<\/p>\n

[…]The truth is that the testimony of hundreds of civic resistance leaders throughout the island shows that Radio Rep\u00fablica has become an essential tool for social organization.<\/p>\n

Read the full Op Ed article on the Miami Herald website<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though they carry a different message, the choice in shortwave radio is the same for Charles Caudill and WCB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this Miami Herald Op Ed piece, Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, the national secretary of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, defends his organization and their clandestine station, Radio Republica. It’s worth noting that in an effort to use their limited funds effectively, and to get their message into Cuba, they use shortwave radio as their medium of choice: […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,869],"tags":[870,871,770,4082,102,84,61],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-clandestine","tag-clandestine-radio","tag-miami-herald","tag-radio-republica","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-why-radio","tag-why-shortwave-radio","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-I5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4804,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/shortwave-radio-recordings-the-mighty-kbc-on-9500-khz\/","url_meta":{"origin":2733,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: The Mighty KBC on 9,500 kHz","author":"Thomas","date":"November 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, The Mighty KBC broadcast a two hour mix of music to the world on 9,500 kHz. 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