Rebel Radio
Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos
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
Series: Latin America Bureau Books
Published: 1993
Pages: 270
eBook: 9781899365869
Paperback: 9780906156889
| 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 | |||
| 10 January 1981 | |||
| The Chickenshlt Journalist | |||
| A War on Adjectives | |||
| The First Guerrilla Sugar Mill | |||
| Section 11: Building the Rearguard | |||
| Another Fifty Knee-Bends | |||
| War Correspondent In Meanguera | |||
| Surround and Destroy | |||
| To the Black Road | |||
| Welcome, Butterfly | |||
| The People are our Mountains | |||
| Tamales in Villa Rosario | |||
| Sapodillas for All | |||
| Burned like a Dog | |||
| A Rifle's Been Stolen | |||
| Hiding in the Swamp | |||
| Hammer and Anvil | |||
| Double Time to Jucuaran | |||
| The Saddest Christmas | |||
| Draining the Sea to Catch the Fish | |||
| Section Ill: The Great Battles | |||
| The Voice of the Revolution | |||
| A Battle in Episodes | |||
| Convincing a Gringo | |||
| The Bat Cave | |||
| Fear is for Men 7 | |||
| The Earth is a Football | |||
| "Marra, Take Your Tit, Give Me Mine" | |||
| Playing for Time | |||
| To the Cacahuatique Aerial | |||
| The Devll's Always Ready | |||
| The Eagle Misses His Prey | |||
| The Trojan Transmitter | |||
| Section IV: Back to Basics | |||
| We Live to Fight, We Fight to Win | |||
| Pols and Usteners' Circles | |||
| Closing The Highways | |||
| Armed with Imagination | |||
| I'm Llber's Marvl 1 | |||
| Three Kernels of Corn | |||
| One Tortilla for Three Soldiers | |||
| The Bridge on the Torola River | |||
| The Battle of Arambala | |||
| One Pole, Two Poles, Three Poles | |||
| General Tuttl Fruttl and Colonel Crazy Pig | |||
| Thirteen Years Organised | |||
| Chlyo and His Brothers | |||
| Section V: On to the Cities | |||
| Meeting Our Colleagues | |||
| Become a Guerrilla In Twenty Easy Lessons | |||
| ATypical Day atVenceremos | |||
| The Last Shy Guerrilla | |||
| Backroom Heroes | |||
| Multi-media Revolution | |||
| From Qullapaylln to Madonna | |||
| The Stubborn lzote Flower | |||
| See You In San 8alvador | |||
| Epilogue: When the Fighting Stops |
A tale of almost incredible courage and ingenuity...
Noam Chomsky