The University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy is advocating a plan to extend the broadcasts of Radio and TV Martí beyond Cuba to the whole of Latin America in a post-Castro world. In USC’s Public Diplomacy Blog, former executive of the US Information Agency Alvin Snyder says that the proposal is receiving guarded reaction in Washington, DC.
According to Snyder, “Worldcasting has learned that while at least one of the BBG’s nine members endorses our concept of broadening TV and Radio Martí programs to include lands beyond Cuba, we were reminded that Voice of America already has a broadcast service for Latin America. While this is so, VOA’s Latin American service operates with a meager annual budget of $4.6 million, which “includes a popular Creole service to Haiti,” says the BBG, compared to the $37.5 million budgeted annually for the Office of Cuba Broadcasting.”
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(Source: R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)