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FROM
CUBA
Police target foreign broadcast antennas
HAVANA, Cuba -February 7 (Juan Carlos
Linares Balmaseda / www.cubanet.org) - Police
and telephone company employees are combing
the streets looking for signs of home-made
antennas designed to pull in TV programs
broadcast from abroad and distributed by
satellite.
Specifically, the dragnet is directed to
Direct TV signals, from the US.
Neighbors of Luyanó described one
such raid: "Two police cars and a dozen
ETECSA (telephone company) employees were
walking down Pérez Street and whenever
they saw a suspicious cable they cut it,"
said Rafael Carlos Núñez and
Nelson Herrera, both Luyanó residents.
Residents in other areas of the capital
reported similar activities in their neighborhoods.
The Direct TV signal is only allowed in
Cuba in certain hotels restricted for foreign
visitors. Even then, the signal is cut off
in the evenings during the Cuban TV broadcast
of the "Round Table," a program
with heavy ideological content.
Many here have ventured that the dragnet
was prompted by the U. S. government's announcement
that TV Martí broadcasts are in future
to be relayed by satellite and thus would
become available to those who have the improvised
antennas.
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