cover image Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos

Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos

Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil, Josc) Ignacio Lc3pez Vigil, Jos Ignacio Lpez Vigil. Curbstone Press, $19.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-1-880684-21-4

Daily during the 1979-92 civil war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos (``We Will Win''), voice of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front, broadcast exhortations, instructions and propaganda, mostly from the mountain jungle of Morazan Province. The author, a radio journalist with the World Association of Community Broadcasters, combines reminiscences of radio station veterans with excerpts from broadcast transcripts. In vivid and often funny language, these tough men and women describe how they lugged crude radio equipment from place to place, transmitting news, playing music, lecturing and airing live reports of helicopter assaults, civilian massacres and battles between guerrillas and government troops. Though a peace accord was signed in 1992 between the government and rebels, Radio Venceremos continues to broadcast. Photos. (Nov.)