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OF an international conference on

Unity radio stations.

Ping the station alive to providea link
Mo Marg orton forces — the Fara-
ans National Liberation Front —

Toadcasting from underground

and moving frequently, and

a Gutierrez said in an interview.

fee as he does a station crucial

against a dictatorship backed by

38 administration, Gutierrez will

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unity centre, July 25-29.

Marti operates from Chalate-

Province, one of the areas held by the

dio vy, LN forces. Its sister station,

: €nceremos, broadcasts in another

_, control,” Morazan province.

lations were established early in the.

di ro 22, 1982, in the case of

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. Out by the established radio and

On stations, all under the control of
All, € of Napolean Duarte.

mass means of communica-

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‘tran Ecoment,” said Gutierrez through

mm Lor: “The ministry of culture and

siunications wages psychological war-

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ROBERTO GUTIERREZ.. .representing
radio for the struggle.

The Radio Marti former war corres-
pondent said opposition media that existed
through the 70s and early 80s — including
papers such as the Independent and the
Chronicle, and the archbishopry’s radio sta-
tion, YSAX — have all been silenced.

When Radio Marti was founded in 1982
it concentrated on lengthy music and news
programs, and promoted “peasant cul-
ture,” said Gutierrez. Today it provides

‘national and international news and analy-

sis, and relates the progress of the liberation
forces on the military front. The station’s
representatives proudly point out that most
international news agencies use the front’s
two radio stations as regular sources of
information.

The stations were established with the aid
of journalists who refused to become a part
of the Salvadoran government’s propa-
ganda mill, “But we’re not staffed entirely
by professionals. Most of us have had to
learn,” said Gutierrez. :

What hampers the clandestine station is,
for starters, lack of equipment. Radio Marti
has only one transmitter, little recording
equipment and one antenna receiver. It has
a communications system linking various

mobile transmission units with a central sta-
tion.
That equipment is subjected to the

roughest possible treatment, Gutierrez _

explained, because the station is forced to

_move frequently due to the carpet bombing

atacks from U.S. planes that has made the
Salvadoran conflict so reminsicent of the
Vietnam War.

Additionally, it faces frequency jam-
mings, which Gutierrez said are carried out
by a U.S. Navy vessel. That forces the sta-
tion, which broadcasts on the AM band, to
change frequencies periodically, he said.
Gutierrez charged that the established
media under Duarte paints a rosy picture
for the American people of Duarte’s alleged
accomplishments, and makes it easier for
the Reagan administration to pry funds for
the Salvadoran military from Congress, But
the current Salvadoran president, who took
power after elections boycotted by left and
liberal opposition parties because of death
threats two years ago, has done nothing to
improve things, he said.

“Duarte came to power waving the
banner of human rights. But his regime is
experiencing the most human rights viola-
tions ever,” he charged.

“He hasn’t stopped the . bombing,
because that’s part of U.S. strategy. He
hasn’t stopped the death squads. And there
are currently 900 political prisoners in El

Salvador’s jails,” Gutierrez related.

That, plus Duarte’s 1986 “economic
package” — which Gutierrez charged was
designed to “put the burden of the war on
the shoulders of the people” — has made
conditions “ripe” for renewed revolution-
ary activity, he said.

Radio Marti and Radio Venceremos will
take part in two panels at the upcoming
community radio conference — on Com-
munity Radio and Community Organizing,
and Peace and Justice — as well as partici-
pate in several of the conference workshops.

Radio stations from Nicaragua, Haiti,
the Philippines and Yugoslavia are some of
the other participants at the conference,
which is expected to draw some 400 partici-

pants.

7th anniversary marked

Some 400 people packed the Russian
Hall in Vancouver Monday to mark the
seventh anniversary of the Sandinista revo-
lution that ended decades of United States
neo-colonial rule in the Central American
nation of Nicaragua.

The event organized by the B.C. Nicara-

_gua Coalition that yearly runs the Tools for

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Peace national campaign to support the
struggling country, heard greetings from
Central Americans representing liberation
movements in El Salvador and Guatemala.

“We are for peace and for life, and
against death,” said Ramon Flores Gon-
zalez, a member of the visiting Nicaraguan
group, Igni Tawanka, which provided
dance music for the event.

Ald. Harry Rankin, mayoral candidate
for the Committee of Progressive Electors,
pledged that a COPE-run city council
would increase city support for the cam-
paign to provide tools and economic aid to
Nicaragua.

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THANK YOU

- WE WISH TO extend our most sincere thanks

to all our friends and comrades who attended
our 50th Wedding Anniversary party at our son
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