Radio Venceremos carried news and insurgent messaging after the 1989 UCA massacre, broadcasting that the regime had collapsed. The station became a key voice during the decade of war, operating from the Salvadoran mountains while dodging bombs and army sieges. It emerged in 1981 after the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero and quickly became a priority target for the military seeking to silence its propaganda and agitation. The station’s broadcasts were suppressed for decades. A revived podcast titled Venceremos recounts its history and confronts historical revisionism associated with President Nayib Bukele’s efforts to erase scars of the civil conflict. The revival is produced through partnerships involving Casa Centroamerica, Ibero 90.9, and Tanto que Contar.
"When the bloodthirsty Atlacatl battalion of the Salvadoran army massacred Jesuit Ignacio Ellacuria and seven others on the campus of the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador on November 16, 1989, the news exploded like a bomb on the clandestine frequency of Radio Venceremos, the military command's nightmare: The assassination confirms that the regime has collapsed, declared the station of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)."
"That insurgent echo, which set the tone for a decade of war, became a voice of information and agitation, but it fell silent for decades. Until now, when it has been revived in a podcast that not only recounts its history but also confronts the historical revisionism of Nayib Bukele, the president intent on erasing the scars of the civil conflict that bled the Central American country."
"That nowlegendary station broadcast from the heart of the Salvadoran mountains, dodging bombs and army sieges. A group of young people armed with microphones, recorders, and a bulletproof ingenuity, led by Venezuelan Carlos Henriquez Consalvi (alias Santiago), fought one of the most singular battles of El Salvador's civil war (19801992)."
"The radio station emerged in 1981 after the assassination of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, and became a priority target for the military, which sought to silence it because of its propaganda and agitation role in a country mired in a deep political crisis and under military violence determined to root out any sign of insurgency."
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