# TV Martí's Nuestra América set, a 2008 still from U.S. government television for Cuba

A still dated 23 July 2008 from TV Martí, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting service under the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Two presenters sit at a round desk before a screen reading "Nuestra América," with the service's logo cropped at the edge of the frame.

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      TV Martí studio set for the programme "Nuestra América", 2008

      TV Martí's Nuestra América set, a 2008 still from U.S. government television for Cuba
      A 2008 still from TV Martí, U.S. government television for Cuba: two presenters at a round desk before a screen reading "Nuestra América." Public domain.

## Techniques named on the archive record

Transfer
      DateJuly 23, 2008Made byOffice of Cuba Broadcasting, Broadcasting Board of Governors (TV Martí), a U.S. government broadcasterMediumBroadcastCountryUnited StatesRegimeGeorge W. Bush AdministrationSourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceWikimedia Commons (from the Broadcasting Board of Governors photo gallery) , retrieved October 2, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. federal government work, Broadcasting Board of Governors; Commons tag PD-USGov-BBG) Broadcasting Board of Governors (bbg.gov), via Wikimedia Commons.
      Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records.

      Full record at propagandaarchive.org

  A still dated 23 July 2008 from TV Martí, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting service under the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Two presenters sit at a round desk before a screen reading "Nuestra América," with the service's logo cropped at the edge of the frame.

## The frame

A woman and a man sit at a round desk in a television studio. Behind them, a screen reads "Nuestra América." At the right edge of the frame, a logo is cut off after "TV Mar"; the archive reads it as TV Martí from the Wikimedia Commons category and caption. That is the whole of the visible text. The image came to Commons from the Broadcasting Board of Governors photo gallery, and the archive dates it 23 July 2008.

Nuestra América

[logo partly cropped at the right edge: TV Mar...]

Transcription in the FRAME record, read from the image and not independently checked. The archive's English rendering, "Our America," is labelled a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. Full record at propagandaarchive.org.

## A borrowed name

The archive's technique tag is transfer, and its tell is the name. The service takes the name of José Martí, a figure Cuba's government also invokes. The archive adds two facts that cut the other way: the service is funded by the U.S. Congress, and the sponsor is named on the set. Nothing here is disguised as a Cuban station.

The record's audience field reads "Foreign public," its purpose field "Persuade or win support," and its source tag "Identified," openly sourced. The record does not include any broadcast content beyond this one still, so this page cannot say what Nuestra América reported or how it was received in Cuba.

## Taxpayer-funded speech abroad

Government broadcasting to a foreign country sits in a particular place for a free society. It is speech paid for by taxpayers and aimed at people who cannot vote on it. An open sponsor line is the minimum a citizen should ask of it, and this set meets that minimum. Whether the programming itself was news or advocacy is a separate question this record cannot answer.

The same office's later work appears in the Trump administration essay, which notes the archive's Martí Noticias title card of 10 June 2026 and calls the service a government broadcaster aimed at a foreign audience. The U.S. Information Agency hub covers an earlier generation of government messaging for audiences abroad, including the 1951 Voice of America poster Everybody's Listening.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, TV Martí studio set for the programme "Nuestra América", 2008. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Broadcasting Board of Governors (TV Martí).

- Wikimedia Commons, file page (from the Broadcasting Board of Governors photo gallery), retrieved by the archive 2 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. federal government work, Broadcasting Board of Governors; Commons tag PD-USGov-BBG).

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/tv-marti-newscast-bbg-2008/