Is Anybody Out There? Rebel radio, part 2
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi has become El Salvador’s best known voice of resistance after launching Radio Venceremos from the guerilla camps, and the national army are furious.
To the people of El Salvador, Carlos Henríquez Consalvi will forever be Santiago, the voice of the left-wing guerrilla radio station, Radio Venceremos, that broadcast from behind enemy lines during the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s. Santiago and the radio team dodge bombardments, machine gun fire and evade spies sent to the camp. The national army grows ever more brazen in their attempt to silence Radio Venceremos, and the rebel radio rises to the challenge with their very own Trojan horse plot.
Clips courtesy of el Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
Presenter/producer: Louise Morris
Voice over: Rafael Montero
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(Photo: Carlos broadcasting from the top of San Salvador’s cathedral, the day the war ended – 16th Jan 1992; Credit: Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen)
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