Dorgan Auditions for Cuba's Censors

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
As U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota works to eliminate funds for TV Marti in the FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill, Cuba's independent journalists report:

Police crack down on illegal TV antennas

HAVANA, Cuba, July 13 (Roberto de Jesús Guerra, Cubanet) – Police supported by workers from ETECSA, the Cuban-Italian telephone company, removed homemade parabolic antennas and cable connections last week, according to an activist from the Republican Party of Cuba.

Raimundo Cuevas said he counted 17 police cruisers and a similar number of telephone company vehicles in the Veracruz district of Havana. He said more than 30 men were involved in cutting cables and scaling roofs to remove the dishes

EDITOR'S NOTE: If Senator Dorgan gets his way, Castro's state security and censors will no longer have to worry about dismantling "illegal" antennas and have plenty of time to concentrate on other activities, such as beating up human rights activists and imprisoning dissidents.