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- Subject: CUBA: TV and U.S. "Embargo" vs "Blockade"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.024209.20577@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:42:09 GMT
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- Another case is that of the [Cuban] pediatric heart center, which
- has been importing equipment from a Swedish firm for years. But
- it has just been prevented from importing a piece of equipment for
- the children's hospital because it has small filtering membrane
- patented in the United States.
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- ...another triumph for freedom and justice for the Cuban people,
- care of "Cry-Uncle" Sam.
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- Topic 136 Interview with Gail Reed in Cuba 1 response
- dhellinger media 2:08 pm Aug 15, 1992
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- FROM: St. Louis Journalism Review
- Interview with Gail Reed
- Havana, June 10, 1992
-
- Gail Reed is a U.S. journalist and correspondent for the Pacifica News
- Network and for Radio Havana, Cuba, an international broadcast service
- [She is married to a Cuba and has lived in Cuba since 1978; see the
- full interview --HB]. Her book, Island in the Storm, an account of
- the October Cuban Communist Party Congress, is available from the
- Center for Cuban Studies, 124 West 23rd St. NY 10011 ($12.95 paper,
- 200 pp). The Interview was conducted for SJR by Daniel Hellinger.
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- SJR: What is the quality of television news?
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- Television is revamping its format. There is a program, Hoy Mismos
- ["Ourselves Today"], that starts a 7:30 at night and goes to about
- ten. Don't be surprised if you see "Peter Jennings, ABC News."
- They've got CNN and Echo. It's stuff taken from national and
- international sources. But to overcome the economic problems and
- the blockade, it's not an easy job.
-
- SJR: How does the Cuban press treat the Cuban American community?
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- Reed: I think its treatment has changed a lot. There's a lot more
- sophistication not only about Cubans in Miami, but in general about
- Cuban exiles abroad. There used to be an approach that treated
- them monolithically. You find now a much more vaired approach as
- it becomes clear to Cubans abroad themselves that they are not a
- monolithic community. For example, this whole fight between the
- Miami Herald and Jorge Mas Canosa [leader of the right wing, Cuban-
- American Foundation] has been reported. There's still a lot to be
- learned here in Cuba about that community, in terms of generational
- differences, in terms of conceptions of the past, perspectives,
- etc. But I think they're on the right road to understanding and
- reflecting it.
-
- SJR: The U.S. media calls the policy an "embargo." Why do you and
- the Cuban government call it a "blockade"?
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- Reed: The Cubans say its a blockade in violation of international
- law because it goes beyond limits on trade between the U.S. and
- Cuba. Last year the Treasury Department got $40 million more than
- they asked for to enforce it. It must be the single case where
- somebody got more money than they asked for out of Congress. So
- Treasury is rolling with money to go sniping at people all over the
- world.
-
- SJR: For example?
-
- Reed: The United States has said that it will not buy any steel
- that is manufactured with an ounce of Cuban nickel by European and
- Candian companies. Cuba has the second largest nickel reserves in
- the world. Another case is that of the pediatric heart center,
- which has been importing equipment from a Swedish firm for years.
- But it has just been prevented from importing a piece of equipment
- for the children's hospital because it has small filtering membrane
- patented in the United States. With the blockade, anything that is
- sold to Cuba that has passed through U.S. hands or been
- manufactured with U.S. technology cannot be imported by Cuba.
- Economically, the challenge is to change the oil economy. You can
- take almost everything else away, but you've got to have the oil.
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- Topic 136 Interview with Gail Reed in Cuba Response 1 of 1
- dhellinger
- media 4:18 pm Aug 16, 1992
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- In the foregoing interview, "SJR" stands for St. Louis Journalism
- Review. The interview will appear in the September issue. Please
- credit SJR if you reproduce or cite any part.
-