After less than 24 hours after US President Donald Trump issued to the end of the United States Agency for Global Means (USAGM, in the abbreviation of the English language), less than 24 hours after the decree of US President Donald Trump at the end of the United States Agency for Global Means (USAAGM, in the abbreviation of the English language), which protects the service. It will be an imminent of the end of an American radio and television network that is transmitted internationally in more than 40 languages, and despite the protection of the state, it is an important source of information free from censorship in countries that restrict journalistic activity. The numerous radio networks of the network are no longer navigated on Saturday.
The decision joins others The enemy of the Actos From the White House regarding the press. On Friday, Trump considered “corrupt” and “illegal” the work of CNN and MSNBC TV stations. In February, the Associated Press was excluded from the Oval Chamber and the presidential plane in retaliation for the news agency’s refusal to appoint the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”.
“I feel deep sadness because for the first time in 83 years, the historical voice of America is silent.” In a statement, the head of the National Club of Journalists, Mike Blashmo, expressed his regret: “For decades, America’s voice has published the independent press and is based on the masses around the world, and often in places where freedom of the press is not.” Reporters who do not have the Border Organization also condemned the decision, recalling that VOA is employing journalists in many countries where its work is strongly conditional.
Martí TV network, an American network that transmits Cuba. The first step should be to reject a total of 1,300 journalists, Voa and Martí.
The financing of the free Europa/Radio Liberdade (RFE/RL), which is transmitted to the old Soviet space, and Asia Liver, and hears in countries such as China, North Korea or Burma, and the Middle East broadcast networks, active in the Arab world. The stations have already started separation operations before cutting sudden funds.
The total of these bodies, along with VOA and Martí, reached an audience of more than 400 million people in more than 100 countries and were a frequent target of criticism and repression by authoritarian regimes. RFE/RL has been lawless by Russia as an “unwanted organization”, and the broadcaster himself warns its listeners and readers. location The participation of your contents can have criminal consequences. Many RFE/RL journalists have been detained in countries such as Russia, belaus and Azerbaijan over the past decades.
“The funding of the financing of the Europa Livre/Radio Freedom Radio will be a huge gift for the enemies of America. (…) Iranian Aiatolas, Chinese Communist leaders, Moscow, and Minsk will celebrate, at the end of RFE/RL,” said on Saturday in communication The head of the station, Steve Kabous.
According to NPR, the end of the money was released before Curry LakeThe former Republican candidate for the positions of the Governor and Arizona, who in January, in January, the appointment of a USAGM special advisor. Lake, who has been a journalist, has repeatedly and repeated over the past few years that the press was a “enemy of the people”, quoting Trump.
A new blow to Soft power
Voa’s closure has already been defended by Elon MuskThe millionaire that Trump has delegated Cut the campaign In the US federal administration, which has so far exempted tens of thousands of employees, the total disassembly of government agencies is almost like Usaid (The largest global provider for humanitarian assistance) and freezing federal funds of thousands of euros.
“No one listens to them,” MUSK wrote about the fly in February on the social network X. “It is just a handful of madness that left people to talk to each other and burn a thousand dollars of taxpayers annually,” he said.
Responsible for Voa and RFE/RL and the remaining broadcasters aimed at discounts on spending and journalistic bias made by Musk, Lake and other elements close to the Trump administration. In the image of the American Agency for International Development, these information agencies have recently enjoyed wide political support from Democrats and Republicans they saw. tools Soft power American. As in the dismantling of the government agency for external aid, the imminent end of the broadcasters should be competed with USAGM in the courts, with at least one trade union organization to announce the appeal of US courts on Saturday.
In addition to the extinction of Usagm, the presidential decree issued on Friday night to Saturday aims to dismantling Among the six other public bodies, including an institute responsible for financing libraries and museum Stifling Foreign policy.
