Re: [HCDX] Status of Radio Illimani, Bolivia

["Rogildo F. Aragão" <raragao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Recommmend

www.bolivia.com
www.lostiempos.com
www.eldeber.com.bo
www.la-razon.com
www.el-nuevodia.com

R.Illimani  SW off

73
Rogildo F. Aragão
Cochabamba- Bolivia


At 08:51 p.m. 12/02/03 -0800, you wrote:
>>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
>>
>>
>>
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