Published on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
NEW YORK, USA (AFP): Despite perpetually strained US-Cuban ties, the US
NBC television network for the first time Tuesday broadcast a live
program from Havana, where the communist government controls all media.
The "Today" broadcast included reports on present-day Cuba, its
political future and how the 40-plus-year US economic embargo has
impacted the island.
NBC said it was unable to get an interview with ailing President Fidel
Castro, 80, or his brother, Raul, 76, who has been running Cuba
provisionally since his brother underwent gastrointestinal surgery in
July of last year.
US policy for almost five decades has presumed that once Fidel Castro
was not in power, the Americas' only one-party communist regime would
collapse.
But in an interview with Ricardo Alarcon, the head of Cuba's National
Assembly and the regime's number three official, Alarcon underscored
that "to imagine that the revolution ends with its founder or its main
protagonist is wrong."
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