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Intense Lobbying Efforts to Legalize Community Radio Continue in Guatemala

Date: 09/16/2009

On August 3, over a thousand rural people rallied in Guatemala City in support of a bill that was introduced to the Guatemalan Congress to legalize community radio. The bill, which was the product of months of work by Cultural Survival staff and radio station volunteers, has now been assigned to two committees (Communications, Transportation and Public Works Committee and Indigenous Peoples Committee) for review. Tino Recinos, our lead lobbyist, met with presidents of both committees last week. Forty-five radio volunteers are aggressively working to push the bill though. Mark Camp, Cultural Survival Director of Operations, is relocating to Guatemala this month to shepherd the process and expand the radio project across the Americas.

Support for the bill is still needed. Please send a letter to the president of Guatemala urging him to support the bill to legalize community radio stations.

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