TV & VIDEO - Aug. 1, 1988

Just a week after the U.S. Senate approved funds to start up TV Marti, a group of Cuban exiles announced plans to set up a pirate TV station in international waters off the Cuban coast. The station’s purpose? Propaganda, mostly. “We know the Cuban people want television without censorship and lies,” said Huber Matos, press secretary for a group known as Independent and Democratic Cuba. The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasting in the United States, said it intends to warn Matos that broadcasts to Cuba from international waters would violate U.S. laws.