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.

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...]

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.