Radio Rebelde
Radio Rebelde is a Cuban radio station. It was founded in 1958 as an illegal propaganda tool by the guerrilla fighters of Fidel Castro's July 26th Movement in the mountains of the eastern Cuban Sierra Maestra . After Castro came to power in 1959 and the subsequent nationalization of all media, Radio Rebelde became part of the Cuban broadcasting authority ICRT, which is controlled by the Communist Party .
history
Radio Rebelde was a small pirate station run by the Cuban rebel army during the Cuban Revolution. The aim was to fight Batista's state propaganda against the guerrillas and to advertise their own goals. Indeed, during the revolution, more and more people listened to the banned station and gained confidence in the information provided by the guerrillas. Radio Rebelde began its work on February 24, 1958 . The first location was Ernesto Che Guevara's command center in La Mesa, later the station changed to Castro's Comandancia General de La Plata at the foot of Pico Turquino . The first director of the station was the politician, publicist and journalist Luis Orlando Rodríguez , before Carlos Franqui took control as Castro's PR manager.