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Article: Community Radio in Bolivia: The Miners' Radio Stations
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- The Americas
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- April 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Academy of American Franciscan History Apr 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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MASS MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS Community Radio in Bolivia: The Miners' Radio Stations. Edited by Alan O'Connor. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. Pp. v, 150. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. $99.95 cloth.
Following a military coup in 1980, tin miners, Bolivia's most militant and organized social force at that time, shared information and attempted to coordinate resistance in different regions of the country using the radio stations owned and operated principally by local miners' union groups. A moving transcript of the dramatic and tense communications among three miners' stations is one of the features that makes this edited collection on the unique miners' radio network such a rich ...