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''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 (, abbreviated FMLN) is a Salvadoran political party and former guerrilla rebel group.
The FMLN was formed as an umbrella group on 10 October 1980, from five leftist guerrilla organizations; ...
(FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War () was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guer ...
. 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
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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
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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 general Manjutakin (also the governor ...
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 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front {{ElSalvador-stub