A Maryland software company that plans to send thousands of text messages to Cuban cell phone users every week received a separate U.S. government contract in July to manage an “email blasting subscription service” for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, or BBG. That contract was worth $24,275 and was scheduled to end no later than [...]
Text-messaging campaign targets Cuba
A Maryland company has won a U.S. government contract to set up a system capable of sending tens of thousands of text messages every month to Cuban cell phone users who want to receive news and information from TV and Radio Martí. Washington Software, Inc., will design a text messaging system aimed at countering Cuban [...]
U.S. paid Fidel Castro’s daughter more than 20k
The Office of Cuba Broadcasting paid Alina Fernandez $20,025 from late 2004 to 2007 for writing, hosting programs and other services, federal budget records show. The Cuba Broadcasting office, which oversees Radio and TV Marti in Miami, has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to journalists, writers and others in recent years (download 813-page PDF [...]