Radio Marti’s Cuba broadcasts draw critique from scholar
Nelson Valdes of University of New Mexico assesses Radio Marti's early Cuba programming as surprisingly ignorant of modern Cuban life. He notes music favors American tunes, soap opera Esmeralda shows incest themes, and news coverage is the most professional yet biased. He urges alignment with Cuban social realities to win Cuban audiences.
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Radio Marte
Cuba
Cratatata
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Nelson Valdes
University of New Mexico
Pacific News Service
Radio Marti
U.S. Information Agency
USIA
Caribbean
Miami
Havana
United States
Potato
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Nananina
Cial
Radio Marti News
Johannesburg
Mozambique
Maputo
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Youth seek entry to gentrydom and the yuppie culture shift
Editor notes graduation prompts focus on joining professional networks and enjoying wealth and culture. The piece traces yuppie and gentry concepts, contrasting money with culture, and explains gentrification shaping urban life and a new social class of insiders, outsiders, and marginals.
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Franz Schurmann
University of California, Berkeley
Pacific News Service
Paris
Switzerland
London
U.S
Bizarre Africa contrasts in Africa and politics
James Travers surveys Africa from Kenya to Zimbabwe noting oddities from a boy dying after a snakebite cure attempt to a hippo hunt in Harare. He recounts Ethiopian visa woes and a customs dispute over a portable word processor misread as a talking device, ending with Africa’s famed no problem phrase and Zimbabwe’s election satire.
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Harare
Addis Ababa
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Bole
Ethiopia
Pan African
Nathan Shamuyarira
Matabeleland
Shamuyarira
South Africa
Mugabe
Peter Maxwell
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