Office of Cuba Broadcasting

Radio Martí Goes Online (But Does It Matter?)

​The U.S. government spends millions of dollars every year transmitting news (or something like it) to Cuba through Radio y Televisión Martí's studios in Miami with the aim of balancing the government-controlled Cuban press. But there's little indication that the program is effective or that ... More >>

Blog of the Day

Letters from the Issue of April 25, 2002

The Everglades, dead fish, and dictators

Letters from the Issue of April 11, 2002

Photos from Cuba, radio to Cuba

Letters from the Issue of April 4, 2002

More sideline heckling over cheating at University of Miami

Air Check:

Listen How Your Money Is Being Spent

Incessant Static

Every year millions of your dollars are pumped into Radio and TV Martí. What do you get in return?

Voice of a Nation

Radio and TV Martí are supposed to remain above politics and provide Cubans with unbiased news. This is not a joke; it only seems like one.

Broadcast Blunder, Part 2

Radio Martí station director is suspended for two weeks

Broadcast Blunder

When the feds snatched Elian, Radio Martí should have been first with the news to Cuba. Instead its director quit in protest and chaos reigned.

Transmission Impossible

TV Martí is costing you $25,000 per day. And it's been off the air for weeks.

No Mas, No Meet

America's favorite propaganda boondoggle is deteriorating and the president doesn't care

Nobody's Listening

A new survey of Cubans finds that Radio Mart''s island audience is shrinking by the day

Miami Voice, Part 2

A recent study by a panel of journalists blasted Radio Mart'. Now it's time to name names.

Miami Voice

A new report confirms that Radio Mart' has become a mecca of shoddy reporting

Letters

Letters

Radio Free Miami

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Good Morning, Havana!

Hot Air Waves

The head honcho thinks The Alex and Miriam Show would be totally cool, but internal strife is boiling over at Radio and TV Marti

DeFede

Radio Marti: Ethics in Exile

Jammin' In Havana

How did two Miami radio stations end up broadcasting Radio Marti programs to listeners in Cuba? Hint: It's curious, but it's classified.