XEVFS-AM (''La Voz de la Frontera Sur'' – "The Voice of
the Southern Border") is an
indigenous community radio
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popul ...
station that broadcasts in
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
,
Tojolabal,
Mam
Mam or MAM may refer to:
Places
* An Mám or Maum, a settlement in Ireland
* General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (IATA Code: MAM)
* Isle of Mam, a phantom island
* Mam Tor, a hill near Castleton in t ...
,
Tseltal,
Tsotsil and
Popti
The Jakaltek (''Jacaltec'') language , also known as Jakalteko (''Jacalteco'') or Poptiʼ, is a Mayan language of Guatemala spoken by 90,000 Jakaltek people in the department of Huehuetenango, and some 500 the adjoining part of Chiapas in sout ...
(otherwise known as
Jakaltek) from
Las Margaritas in the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate ent ...
of
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities ...
. It is run by the
Cultural Indigenist Broadcasting System
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(SRCI) of the
National Institute of Indigenous Peoples
The National Institute of Indigenous Peoples ( es, Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas, INPI) is a decentralized agency of the Mexican Federal Public Administration. It was established on December 4, 2018, though the earliest Mexican g ...
(INPI).
History
XEVFS signed on April 27, 1987.
The broadcast facilities of XEVFS were seized by the
Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in their January 1994 uprising and used to transmit rebel message
In December 2016, the CDI obtained an FM frequency, XHSEB-FM 91.7, to convert XEVFS into an AM-FM combo. However, the station's technical proposals ran into problems precipitated by the primary locality designation of San Sebastián. The proposed coordinates to operate XHSEB-FM were 45 km from the locality of San Sebastián, far beyond the reference distance of 28 km for a Class AA radio station. As such, the INPI surrendered the concession in a letter dated March 19, 2019.
RPC: #033763 Surrender — XHSEB-FM
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External links
XEVFS website
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References
Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas
Radio stations in Chiapas
Radio stations established in 1987
Daytime-only radio stations in Mexico
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