Radio Venceremos

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Radio Venceremos (RV) was an underground broadcaster in El Salvador . During the civil war in El Salvador (1980-1991) he was the official voice of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (Popular Front Farabundo Martí for National Liberation - FMLN).

Emergence

Radio Venceremos ( Spanish for "We will win") was founded by the Venezuelan journalist Carlos Henríquez Consalvi (Santiago) and began broadcasting on January 10, 1981 , parallel to the FMLN's military offensive.

The transmitter and studio were located in the mountains in the north of the Morazán department near the village of Perquín . RV broadcast on shortwave and VHF . The area from which it was broadcast was largely under the military control of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army), one of the organizations that had merged into the FMLN in 1980. The radio broadcaster was set up with the aim of informing the Salvadoran population and the international public about the development of the civil war. The daily broadcasts began and ended with the song Venceremos by the Chilean group Inti-Illimani . In every broadcast the population was called upon to support the struggle of the FMLN, attacks by the FMLN against the government armed forces and state facilities as well as losses on both sides were reported.

meaning

The programs reached a wide audience at home and abroad and became an essential source of news for the international media, especially in the first years of the war. The station itself has been the target of attacks by government forces, who declared the destruction of the station a strategic goal. In 1984, Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, a prominent officer in the government forces and responsible for a series of massacres of civilians, died in an operation aimed at silencing RV.

The magazine "Señal de Libertad" (Signal of Freedom) by Radio Venceremos was published for the international public in Spanish, English and German. Under the direction of the German journalist Paolo Luers, a video department was created that produced documentary and propaganda films under the name Sistema Radio Venceremos , which were aimed primarily at viewers in North America and Europe. In 1992 Radio Venceremos received an official broadcast license and an FM frequency after the Chapultepec Peace Agreement . The programs lost their political character in the period that followed, and the station, which only operated under the abbreviation RV, broadcast a program largely determined by music and advertising. After discontinuing own broadcasts, the VHF frequency is rented to an evangelical mission station. Carlos Henríquez Consalvi separated from RV in 1994 and co-founded the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen in San Salvador , which u. a. hosts the audio archive of Radio Venceremos.

Literature / film

  • López Vigil, José Ignacio: Las mil y una historias de radio Venceremos . San Salvador, El Salvador: UCA Editores, (Colección Testigos de la Historia; 4), 1991. 546 pp. ISBN 84-8405-161-7 . (English translation: Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos . Willimantic, CT, USA: Curbstone Press, 1994. ISBN 1-880684-21-7 )
  • Consalvi, Carlos Henríquez (Santiago): La Terquedad del Izote, La historia de Radio Venceremos . México: Editorial Diana, Ediciones Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, 1992. 268p., ISBN 99923-840-0-X
  • The Venezuelan feature film Trampa para un gato (Trap for a Hangover) by Manuel de Pedro (1994) tells the story of Radio Venceremos.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Radio Venceremos in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  2. ^ Radio Venceremos in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  3. ^ López Vigil, José Ignacio. Las mil y una historias de radio Venceremos . San Salvador, 1991
  4. ^ Radio Venceremos in the Spanish language Wikipedia

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