Rebel Radio: Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos

by José Ignacio López Vigil

Book Overview

Rebel radio: the story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos describes the courage and sacrifices of the young men and women responsible for running the guerrillas' radio station during the ten-year-long civil war in El Salvador.

Cast of Characters; Introduction, Section 1: The General Offensive, Enter the Viking, Broadcasting under Blankets, Inspired by the Monsignor, The Pee that Changed my Ufe, Announcer Wanted, Crossing the Torola River,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906156882
• ISBN13: 9780906156889
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Latin America Bureau (Lab)
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Book You'll Never Forget

"Rebel Radio" is inspiring, moving, and impossible to put down, and not just for radio fans. It's the story of how a small band of young rebels put a guerrilla station (like a pirate station) on the air and kept it there for years against all odds, told in their own voices. We see them develop as journalists, as artists, and as revolutionaries. The Salvadorans are resourceful, creative, and audacious beyond belief. They tear down the station at a moment's notice and carry it off on their backs, staying just ahead of the government forces who want to destroy them, then taunting the generals on the air, like Wily Coyote and the Roadrunner. You'll fall in love with these people; they're fearsomely brave and committed, yet they have their funny and deeply human moments too. You'll want to run off to El Salvador immediately to see the museum that honors Radio Venceremos.

POR CORAJE

This book's story is a little example of how cruel power could be against a people. El salvador gave the world some decades ago one of the most gallards fights in order to preserve freedom, justice, wealth, independence, work. Power, land and money inside a fisk and in the other hand a defendless people, armed only with reason. The resulting damages of salvadoran pro- USA death squads are horrendous: massacres, sexual violations, catholic nuns, union leaders, peasants, teachers, children killed. And the School of the Americas is still open :)... And still current El Salvador government refuses to cooperate with justice.... ... A great homage for those killed.

historia de la radio venceremos

I bought this book in El Salvador in one of the few visits that I have made to my natal land, the strugles that all the fighters have to go thru to keep the radio waves opened for all the listeners was horrendous. The book tell the story of the freedom fighters moving all the equipment from site to site and hiding it from the attacks of the salvadorean army. The heroism displayed or let's say described in the book is to be admired. I am not a former guerrilla member nor do I like comunism in any form, but being salvadorean myself I could not hold some tears after reading some of the chapters in the book.

excelente

Hola Marvin, me llamo R. Manolo Mendez,24 años, vivo en Canada, Montréal.Leí este libro y me pareció fantastico, increíble, no sabes cuanto lo disfruté. Bueno, solo quería saludarte, soy un gran admirador de la gente que pelió por nuestro país, me han recomendado un libro llamado: Carceles Clandestinas, dicen que es muy bueno, pero no lo encuentro en ninguna parte.Bueno, fue un placer saludarte, adios.

Im one of the guys of the book. My name is marvin...

my name is marvin galeas, Im one of the guys of the book. By presents Im the Director of Radio Venceremos. I really feel proud for the succes of this book, because is our story... a big part of our life. I already have the english version... is a good job. thank you