Re: [HCDX] Status of Radio Illimani, Bolivia

[Henrik Klemetz <hklemetz@xxxxxxxx>]

You have to paste the address into the Open Location
area of your Real Player in order to receive their
audio.

HK 

 --- Henrik Klemetz <hklemetz@xxxxxxxx> skrev: > Radio
Illimani moved several years ago to the main
> street of La Paz, also known as El Prado, and for
> those hard-core users who wish to dip into the
> present
> turmoil, listening to shots from firearms and
> excited
> people talking in Spanish and Aymara, there is a
> working real audio link at
> http://illimani.comunica.gov:8000
> 
> Henrik Klemetz
> 
> 
>  --- Don Moore <donmooredxer@xxxxxxxxx> skrev: > A
> news article tells of riots in downtown La Paz.
> > Several large government 
> > buildings in the center of La Paz have been
> > abandoned to rioters. The
> > government broadcaster, Radio Illimani, was
> located
> > in one of those buildings
> > when I visited them in 1985, and they were still
> > there a few years ago...
> > probably still are. The article is at
> > 
> >
>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=589&e=5&u=/ap/20030213/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/bolivia_police_mutiny
> > 
> > If that direct link is broken and does not work,
> try
> > this index link
> > 
> > http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=734
> > 
> > Such violence is not new to central La Paz. I
> > remember that a block away from
> > Radio Illimani and in front of the presidential
> > palace was a 1940s style
> > lamppost that merited a 24 hour military guard. In
> > 1947, rioters drug the
> > country's then dictator out of the presidential
> > palace and lynched him from
> > that lamppost. From what I've read, he probably
> > deserved what he got, but the
> > Bolivian army didn't take it too well, so the
> > lamppost became a shrine. The
> > presidential palace is called the "Palacio
> Quemado",
> > or "Burnt Palace" for what
> > should be obvious reasons. During the successful
> > 1952 revolution, Radio
> > Illimani was quickly captured and became the
> rebels'
> > communications center as
> > fighting continued just two blocks away for three
> > more days. For more on the
> > often violent history of Bolivian radio, see my
> > article 
> > "Bolivia: Radio Under the Gun" at
> >
> http://donmoore.tripod.com/south/bolivia/miners.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > Don Moore   ---   donmooredxer@xxxxxxxxx      <<<<
> > NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS       
> > Radio & Latin American website:
> > http://donmoore.tripod.com  
> > Other Highly Recommended:
> > http://www.commondreams.org/
> >                                           
> > http://www.tompaine.com/
> > 
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