Radio and TV Marti is challenged with the issue of distributing it's content inside Cuba. Marti is known for it's unfiltered Cuban news and snippets of life on the island. Employees at Marti burn about 15,000 Dvds with news and other content, which are then distributed monthly. It is circulated through flash drives as a way to get around Cubas jammers for Marti television and radio signals. The information is usually reported by Cuban journalists.
The Marti broadcast is infamously known to anger the Castro brothers who view the transmission as a "violation of international norms". This is mostly due to the censored and tightly controlled news media in Cuba. In January, President Raul Castro called for an end to the Martis as a condition for normalizing relations within the U.S.
According to nytimes:
“The decision about what to do should not be based on diplomatic relations but on the lack of a free flow of information into Cuba — and that has not changed,” said Carlos A. García-Pérez, the director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which is part of an independent federal agency that oversees Radio and TV Martí. “Our work is even more important now.”
Although the Obama administration supports the Marti program they are eager to cut the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. They plan on consolidating the programs, turning them into a nonprofit organization. Supporters of the change say it would make the Martis more flexible. The current implications of the Martis broadcasting urges it to change. Reports by the inspector general for the state department have implicated Marti. They have accused the station for "a lack of balance, fairness and objectivity".
Mr.Garcia-Perez took over Marti hq in 2010 has attempted to diversify coverage of Cuba by building a website. Currently they are bringing in more Cubans into the conversation through video, articles, texts, blogs and social media. Michael P. Meehan, a democrat who until recently served as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal agency that oversees the Martís says that still there is little danger that Marti will lose it's funding all together.