La Voz Popular
Yesterday, an ex-guerrila member talked about the radio program the movement had for 9 years and it was really interesting.
She and another compañera were trained in Cuba in radio. ONe of the excersizes was to lie down and read the news with books stacked on top of her chest so that she would read stronger. Also, she practiced with a pen across her mouth and over her tongue for one hour. Afer, she had better pronounciation.
When she returned, at first, they were just jamming the state radio. She stopped, but others continued that work. Those people were later disappeared.
Seven years later, they called her up for service as the radio was starting to create programming. They had segments that addressed women, farmers, that was an update from the guerrilas, a medical show for farmers. They also passed on tapes of the show to an international support community. (They wrote the name of popular musicians on the tapes so that they weren´t intercepted at the airport, butreally they had revolutionary programming).
The antennae was on top of a vocanoe. They put mines at the bottom of the volcanoe (which they now removed) so that the army couldn´t shut down the antennae.
This is the power of radio at its best.
(I have video of her talk that I hope to post this weekend)
