CENSORSHIP IN MEXICO COMMUNITY RADIOS
By Karina Moreno Rojas
⊙ "Community radio stations are precensuradas" Chavez
⊙ Radio in Mexico is in the hands of 13 wealthy families.
Mexico (Aunam) 10.28.1908. For Maria Eugenia Chavez, vice president of the Network of women belonging to the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) in Latin America, community radio stations in Mexico are censored in various ways: either through violence and threats, not being considered in legislation or through fear journalist grown in the country's insecurity.
Meanwhile, Mary Esther Navarro Lara, a graduate in Communication Sciences, Sociology and Law from the UNAM, said the lack of legal issues to foster and enforce the state to support the creation of community radio in Mexico, for they are considered superficially in the fourth and fifth articles of the Federal Telecommunications Act, which says about the radio spectrum is a general communication channel (4 th) and that this pathway is under federal jurisdiction (5 º) therefore opens the possibility of existence of this type of radios. Both
gathered in the auditorium Ricardo Flores Magon, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) by reason of forum censorship: how the living community radio? It said Chavez "community radios are precensuradas because they are not considered in the legislation" only granted the permission but not the institutional financial support. To which the professor also FCPyS added "we must promote basic minimum laws [...] and that most permits are at the discretion of the authority in office (which) is ambiguous."
addition precensura also considered by the member of Integral Health for Women (Sipam), said that community radio stations are threatened by drug dealers and such authorities, mainly from the Ministry of Public Security, which he has removed transmitters and beaten communicators, so much self-censorship is exercised due to the fear and protection of life and integrity of journalists.
worth mentioning that the first community radio in Latin America appeared in the sixties in Colombia. In Mexico, the first was created in the state of Veracruz by Jesuit priests who were interested in the problems community. Since then, 1994, there will be more radio projects without permits. Nine years after negotiations began for the request, and for 2004 the state granted 10.
acquires radio in the decade of the 20 a huge impact on Mexican society to reach all households, and although television relegated somewhat in the 50, no longer an influential media suitable for Mexican.
However, according to Navarro Lara said, unfortunately the media in our country are primarily commercial, ie, dealers who seek profit and doing business with the information and entertainment. As for radio, was given greater weight to the music constantly transmitting the wave of fashion artists. It is after the 1988 elections when there is greater openness to news and news programs.
Although in our country, "the electromagnetic waves are owned by the nation and not the dealers" themselves can not be foreigners, the media power "is concentrated in 13 wealthy families and corporate reputation," said the rapporteur They are: ACIR (Ibarra family 160 radio stations in Mexico), Radiopolis (PRISA and Azcarraga family), Monitor (Jose Gutierrez Vivo), MSV Radio (family Vargas 52), Grupo Imagen (Vazquez Rana 67), ABC Radio (Mario Vazquez Rana 21), RACE (family Laris 26), Multimedia Group (Gonzalez family 37), Radio Capital (family Macice), Radio Centro (Aguirre family 102) , Radio Formula (family Azcarraga Madero 83), Radiorama (Pérez de Anda Family 200), Radio SA (family Quiñones) and Group Seven (Sánchez Campusano).
The above represent the commercial radio stations, ie those that are managed by grants. Unlike those, there are the popular public radio or which are granted permission to use the electromagnetic space without having to pay anything for it. Of these last in the country are currently 194 government, 27 Indians, 68 universities and 11 community.
community radio means to that which is considered the community "and seeks" to preserve the local culture, to transmit particular information of the region and speak freely on social movements, "said Mary Esther Navarro.
For Maria Eugenia Chavez, the Community is one of the five types of radios in Mexico and is characterized by the needs of a particular community in a legal manner, that community is a group of people with common problems and solutions are not limited by geographical space, raised the exhibitor.
The other four types of radios as classified by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), a worldwide association to which he belongs Sipam, are pirate radio stations which "conveyed illegally and commercial projects are" radios that do not need to consider permission to transmit it "have the right to information and freedom of expression" Indian radios, which are very close to the community but whose position and design of government and indigenous radio stations that are fully managed and "managed by people, "said Chavez.
By Karina Moreno Rojas
⊙ "Community radio stations are precensuradas" Chavez
⊙ Radio in Mexico is in the hands of 13 wealthy families.
Mexico (Aunam) 10.28.1908. For Maria Eugenia Chavez, vice president of the Network of women belonging to the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) in Latin America, community radio stations in Mexico are censored in various ways: either through violence and threats, not being considered in legislation or through fear journalist grown in the country's insecurity.
Meanwhile, Mary Esther Navarro Lara, a graduate in Communication Sciences, Sociology and Law from the UNAM, said the lack of legal issues to foster and enforce the state to support the creation of community radio in Mexico, for they are considered superficially in the fourth and fifth articles of the Federal Telecommunications Act, which says about the radio spectrum is a general communication channel (4 th) and that this pathway is under federal jurisdiction (5 º) therefore opens the possibility of existence of this type of radios. Both
gathered in the auditorium Ricardo Flores Magon, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) by reason of forum censorship: how the living community radio? It said Chavez "community radios are precensuradas because they are not considered in the legislation" only granted the permission but not the institutional financial support. To which the professor also FCPyS added "we must promote basic minimum laws [...] and that most permits are at the discretion of the authority in office (which) is ambiguous."
addition precensura also considered by the member of Integral Health for Women (Sipam), said that community radio stations are threatened by drug dealers and such authorities, mainly from the Ministry of Public Security, which he has removed transmitters and beaten communicators, so much self-censorship is exercised due to the fear and protection of life and integrity of journalists.
worth mentioning that the first community radio in Latin America appeared in the sixties in Colombia. In Mexico, the first was created in the state of Veracruz by Jesuit priests who were interested in the problems community. Since then, 1994, there will be more radio projects without permits. Nine years after negotiations began for the request, and for 2004 the state granted 10.
acquires radio in the decade of the 20 a huge impact on Mexican society to reach all households, and although television relegated somewhat in the 50, no longer an influential media suitable for Mexican.
However, according to Navarro Lara said, unfortunately the media in our country are primarily commercial, ie, dealers who seek profit and doing business with the information and entertainment. As for radio, was given greater weight to the music constantly transmitting the wave of fashion artists. It is after the 1988 elections when there is greater openness to news and news programs.
Although in our country, "the electromagnetic waves are owned by the nation and not the dealers" themselves can not be foreigners, the media power "is concentrated in 13 wealthy families and corporate reputation," said the rapporteur They are: ACIR (Ibarra family 160 radio stations in Mexico), Radiopolis (PRISA and Azcarraga family), Monitor (Jose Gutierrez Vivo), MSV Radio (family Vargas 52), Grupo Imagen (Vazquez Rana 67), ABC Radio (Mario Vazquez Rana 21), RACE (family Laris 26), Multimedia Group (Gonzalez family 37), Radio Capital (family Macice), Radio Centro (Aguirre family 102) , Radio Formula (family Azcarraga Madero 83), Radiorama (Pérez de Anda Family 200), Radio SA (family Quiñones) and Group Seven (Sánchez Campusano).
The above represent the commercial radio stations, ie those that are managed by grants. Unlike those, there are the popular public radio or which are granted permission to use the electromagnetic space without having to pay anything for it. Of these last in the country are currently 194 government, 27 Indians, 68 universities and 11 community.
community radio means to that which is considered the community "and seeks" to preserve the local culture, to transmit particular information of the region and speak freely on social movements, "said Mary Esther Navarro.
For Maria Eugenia Chavez, the Community is one of the five types of radios in Mexico and is characterized by the needs of a particular community in a legal manner, that community is a group of people with common problems and solutions are not limited by geographical space, raised the exhibitor.
The other four types of radios as classified by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), a worldwide association to which he belongs Sipam, are pirate radio stations which "conveyed illegally and commercial projects are" radios that do not need to consider permission to transmit it "have the right to information and freedom of expression" Indian radios, which are very close to the community but whose position and design of government and indigenous radio stations that are fully managed and "managed by people, "said Chavez.
And while community radio stations promote "participatory communication, interaction with others and feedback," said Mary Esther Navarro said, the state does not give enough support for their existence and development through legislation to protect and promoted.
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