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Are American taxpayers being robbed?(The Week)(Radio and TV Marti)(Brief article)
Are American taxpayers being robbed? Waste not, fear not--NBC News is on the case. In a recent installment of its "Fleecing of America" series, NBC Nightly News tackled Radio and TV Marti, the Spanish-language stations that broadcast unfiltered news to Cuba. According to their detractors, the Martis are a waste of money as Castro blocks the signals from Cuban shores. But many of those broadcasts are now getting ...
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