frequency and impose broadcasting designed especially for Cuban audiences for overtly diversionary purposes? Nor is our opposition a knee-jerk rejection of American television programming, for the obvious reason that in point of fact TV Marti is not American television. On the basis of these positions, which anyone can understand, Cuba carried the matter even further and, there is virtually no channel that our country has not used to express its readiness to negotiate and reach viable agreements for the normalisation of exchanges of programmes and broadcasts with public or private bodies in the United States, something which has been hindered for three decades by the United States-imposed blockade. Silence has been the only response. Reason was of no avail, and on 27 March the battle shifted to the technical plane. Barely ten minutes after the start of the first day of broadcasting, steps were taken to jam the broadcasts and for 84 days the monotonous routine has been repeated every morning. The broadcasts begin and are immediately jammed, and the political and diplomatic battle has gone from dissuasion to denunciation and condemnation. Once again, organisations, parliaments and political leaders, religious communities and individuals the world over, including in the United States, have supported Cuba’s just position, For many, the affair is an unprecedented event in which a small third world country is prevailing over the most powerful nation on Earth in the technological field; for others, it represents behaviour worthy of inclusion in the annals of obstinacy. The United States persists, and no one knows how much ridicule it will bring down on its engineers and technicians and how long such a dispiriting exercise will occupy energies and talent that could be put to better use. A project of such extravagance and dubious effectiveness could have been 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the broadcasting of TV Marti, a television channel targeting Cuban audiences, and the subsequent jamming of the broadcasts by the Cuban government. The text highlights the political and diplomatic implications of the issue, including the reactions of international organizations, parliaments, and individuals. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting a serious and formal dispute between two countries.

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Transport and communication, International trade