By Jacob Wiesenthal
Washington, D.C.
USA
Translation:
Joaquin Sueiro Bonachea

Sources at the transmission services of the United States indicate that the Director of the Office of Cuban Broadcasts (OCB), Pedro Roig, would be involved in negotiations with Radio Marti's ex-director and Miami radio commentator Roberto Rodriguez Tejera in order to "finalize" the last details to enable his return to Radio and TV Marti.

The contract negotiations apparently are proving to be unacceptable to Rodriguez Tejera, even though Roig - whose last administrative decisions, we are told, have returned control of the stations to old associates of the Clinton-agenda of demolishing Radio and TV Marti - according to the same sources, presumably fired one of his closest and best paid assessors, Cuban-issues analyst Guillermo Cueto, to open up the position for Rodriguez Tejera.

The decision to once again employ Rodriguez Tejera would require the approval of the top bureaucrats at the International Broadcasting Bureau in Washington, DC, but observers estimate that the approval procedure would not encounter any obstacles because at the highest levels of the bureaucracy that is in charge of the transmission services one still finds most of the same bureaucrats with Democratic party affiliation who, allegedly, covered up and guaranteed the clintonian-era demolition agenda of the Marti stations - agenda which Rodriguez Tejera was closely tied to.

In 2001 Rodriguez Tejera quit his position as Director of Radio Marti upon the arrival of new OCB Director Salvador Lew.

During Clinton's tenure Rodriguez Tejera was involved in a number of controversies that included the resignation of almost two-dozen veteran employees who were promptly replaced by new employees, the majority of which were supported by the Democrat directorship for the Marti stations. Rodriguez Tejera was also responsible for the infamous order to delay the broadcast to Cuba of the news of the assault by armed United States government officials of the house of the family of Elian Gonzalez in Miami.

It is alleged that the departure of those employees - due to administrative measures resulting from "necessary budget cuts," pressure, and alleged reprisal campaigns, harassment, and threats - was partly due to the existence of a black list of people whose dismissal from the stations was an integral element of the implementation plan of the demolition agenda of the Marti stations as part of initiatives from the Clinton White House to bring about closer relations with the Cuban government.