AMARC

Mexico’s Community Radio Stations Fight for Survival and Recognition

By Daniela Pastrana
Radio Totopo was founded in February 2006 in the Pescadores neighbourhood, the oldest and poorest part of the city of Juchitán in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. But the authorities closed it down in late March, even though Congress is debating a constitutional reform that would recognise community radio stations.

Q&A: Community Radio Reflects Levels of Democracy

By George Gao
In 1983, producers of popular radio, alternative radio and educational radio convened in Montreal to define a new genre of radio: community radio. Those dialogues led to the formation of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).
Radio Pachamama is a community station in the highlands region of Puno. Credit:Radio Pachamama

Airwaves Cut Distances in Rural Peru

By Milagros Salazar
The Onda Rural communication for development initiative in Peru has come up with a range of strategies to get information out to remote villages, to help them with decision-making on questions like climate change adaptation or disaster preparedness.


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