XHFCE-FM (''Radio Huayacocotla: La Voz de los Campesinos'' – "The Voice of the Campesinos") is an

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station based in

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, a community of some 4000 inhabitants in the mountainous north of the

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. It began broadcasting, with a permit on 2390

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, a

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frequency, on August 15, 1965 as XEJN-OC ("OC" for ''onda corta''), using a 500 W transmitter. On February 14, 2005, the

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(SCT) granted the station a legal permit after 27 years of negotiations, assigning it the

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XHFCE-FM and an FM frequency of 105.5 MHz. In its early years, the station's programming focused on adult literacy and numeracy efforts before evolving toward a more general community-radio format: local information, regional cultural dissemination, agricultural news, campesino rights. It carries programming in both

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and the local

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External links

La Voz Campesina Facebook

References

¿Quién es “La voz de los campesinos” en Sierra Norte de Veracruz?Entregan permiso a Radio Huayacocotla en la banda de FM
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