Today, we look at Radio Venceremos — a grassroots guerrilla radio that broadcast throughout El Salvador’s Civil War, denounced violent state repression, and inspired a nation.
In this episode, Michael Fox travels to San Salvador, where he visits the Museum of Word and Image, the home of the archives of Radio Venceremos. He hears from former members of the radio about the revolutionary project and the U.S. and Salvadoran military attempts to shut it down.
We look at what the museum means today, and also at its struggle to protect and preserve the past.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between
The Real News Network and
NACLA.
Guests:
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi ("Santiago")
Carlos Colorado
Lucio Vásquez ("Chiyo")
Jorge E. Cuéllar Michael Beattie
Karla Lara Edited by Heather Gies and Maximillian Alvarez.
Sound design by
Gustavo Türck.
Voice Actors: Marc Steiner & Jasial Noor
Theme music by
Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Chiyo and host Michael Fox performed two original songs that appear in this podcast. You can listen
here and
here.
You can read Chiyo’s book, Siete Gorriones, here
https://www.academia.edu/43531929/Siete_GorrionesDocumentary sound and Radio Venceremos archives and images are courtesy of the Museum of Word and Image.
You can visit them at
https://museo.com.sv/ or follow on Instagram
@museodelapalabraylaimagen and Twitter
@tejiendomemoria.
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