Trump Silencia La Voz de América while the staff made a license

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the organization of global news, independent and funded by the federal government Voice of America.

The president’s order is directed to the parent company of the US company of VOA for global media, or Usagm, which also finances non -profit entities such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, which originally established themselves to counteract communism.

It also asks the bosses of those agencies to “reduce the performance … to the minimum presence and function required by law.”

Mike Abramowitz, the director of the VOA, said that he and practically his staff of 1,300 people had been paid license.

Abramowitz said the order left VOA unable to carry out its “vital mission … especially criticism today, when the adversaries of the United States, such as Iran, China and Russia, are sinking billions of dollars in the creation of false narratives to discredit the United States.”

There has been no explanation of the Trump administration and it is not yet clear if the stations are completely closing.

CBS, the BBC news partner in the USA.

A source told CBS that all independent workers and international contractors were told that there were now no money to pay them.

The emails obtained by CBS notified the Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty heads that their federal subsidies had been completed.

VOA and other under Usagm stations serve more than 400,000,000 listeners and are widely equivalent to the BBC World Service, which is partially financed by the British government.

Elon Musk, Trump’s unskilled advisor who has been reducing government departments, has used his social media platform X to ask VOA to close.

The president of the United States also reduced the funds to several other federal agencies, including those responsible for preventing the lack of housing and financing museums and libraries.

Trump was very critical of VOA in his first mandate. He has recently appointed Kari Lake’s loyalist to be a special advisor to the United States agency for global media.

The president regularly states that the main media are partial against him. He called CNN and MSNBC “corrupt” and “illegal”, without providing evidence, during a speech in the Department of Justice.

Voice of America was launched in 1942, that a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese propaganda. Its first transmission, carried out in a transmitter provided to the US by the BBC, declared a modest purpose.

Gerald Ford, a former president, signed the Public Charter of the VOA in 1976 to safeguard his editorial independence.

By 1994, the Board of Transmission Governors was established, with supervision on non -military transmission.

In 2013, a change in the legislation allowed VOA and affiliates to begin to transmit in the United States.