Radio Venceremos (Spanish; in English, "'We Shall Overcome' Radio") was an 'underground' radio network of the anti-government
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( es, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN) is a left-wing political party in El Salvador.
The FMLN was formed as an umbrella group on 10 October 1980, from five leftist gu ...
(FMLN) during the
Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Ma ...
. The station "specialized in ideological propaganda, acerbic commentary, and pointed ridicule of the government". The radio station was founded by
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi (Santiago).
Despite the end of the war in 1992, the network continues to broadcast. The war years of the station and its national and international influence were documented in the
Spanish-language book ''Las mil y una historias de radio Venceremos'' and its English translation, ''Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos'', by the author José Ignacio López Vigil (translator: Mark Fried), a book recorded by the
American Library of Congress
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. An exhibit honoring Radio Venceremos, including a studio room with original equipment, forms a prominent part of the
Museum of the Revolution in
Perquín,
Morazán,
El Salvador.
Digitized recordings of the Radio Venceremos broadcasts are freely available online through the Human Rights Documentation Initiative
at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin.
Further reading
*López Vigil, José Ignacio. ''Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos''. (Translator, Mark Fried). Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press,
994
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Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid forces, under Turkish gener ...
Translation of ''Las mil y una historias de Radio Venceremos''. .
*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.,
* ''Radio Venceremos Digital Collection'' - University of Texas Libraries
References
Salvadoran Civil War
Radio in El Salvador
Defunct mass media in El Salvador
Radio stations established in 1981
Radio stations disestablished in 1994
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