CAPITOL HILL CUBANS
Throughout his failed re-election bid, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) remained strangely obsessed with defunding Radio Marti. He even held it as a cornerstone of his fiscal discipline plan.
During a campaign interview with a Wisconsin newspaper:
Feingold said he's introduced a 41-point bill to control spending. One item would eliminate $30 million for Radio and Television Marti, U.S. broadcasts aimed at Cuba. "But nobody can get it," he said of the broadcasts.
Yet, the recently released Annual Report by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) includes these two powerful testimonies by Cuban dissidents:
"Radio Marti breaks the information blockade that the Castro dictatorship has on the Cuban people and the internal opposition."
-- Juan Francisco Sigler Amaya, Matanzas Cuba, Alternative Option Board Member.
"If it wasn't for Radio Marti the Cuban people will not know the truth of what goes on in Cuba and the world. Radio Marti is on the Internet and it is the media that we have had throughout many years, the first one that has helped us spread the violations of human rights in Cuba."
-- Alejandria Garcia de la Riva, Member of The Ladies in White, and wife of political prisoner Diosdado Gonzalez Marrero sentenced to 20 years in jail.
Its been a tough week for Senator Feingold, so we'll refrain from a snarky closing comment.
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