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ОглавлениеThe island awoke and was startled by a new imperialist act of aggression: Radio Martí had just begun broadcasting on shortwave from the United States. The fact that an anti-Cuban radio station used the name of the most venerated national hero and inspiration for the revolution hurt the people’s feelings. For 14 hours every day, the radio station broadcasts news and commentary from the Voice of America, music and speeches hailing Reagan’s policy and attacking the Cuban government.
The Cuban government reacted immediately. On the morning of that same day, Granma, the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, carried an article called “Information for the People” on its front page. Signed by the government, it announced that the agreement on migratory matters that had been signed by delegations from the two countries in New York on December 14 was thereby suspended, as were visits to Cuba by Cuban citizens living in the United States — “except those authorized for purely humanitarian reasons” — and that measures regarding the communications between the two countries would be adopted. These included a decision that “the government of Cuba reserves the right to transmit medium-wave radio broadcasts to the United States to make fully known the Cuban view on the problems concerning the United States and its international policy.”
I wondered whether or not it would be possible to interview the man who once again was the center of attention because he has fearlessly confronted the US government’s acts of aggression. In any case, I stayed at home, waiting for his office to phone me. Nobody called, and the day dragged slowly by, weighing on the harsh agony of my silent anxiety. The graphic symbols in the books I tried to read failed to break through the blockade of imaginings that flooded my mind.
