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Article: MEDIA: SOUTH-SOUTH RADIO FROM CARACAS TO AFRICA
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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Mildred Pineda
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-07-2009
CARACAS, Oct. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Radio del Sur, a new regional
public radio network linking stations from South American to
Africa, will offer indepth coverage on social justice issues from
poverty to attacks on human rights and corporate fraud.
"Radio of the South" emerged as "an instrument of integration
in a world of shifting power alignments and geopolitical changes,"
said Helena Salcedo, director of the Radio Nacional de Venezuela
(the state-owned national radio station), who heads the new
Caracas-based station.
Salcedo said the Venezuelan government, which launched the new
network of public stations, is providing "a small ...