Community Radio How to resignify it today?

Abstract

The Community Radio’s emerged in Latin America as alternative means to commercial radio and state radio. They were positioned as an indispensable tool in the debate of emerging issues from the community in a context marked by principles of unity, consensus, participation, discernment and dialogue. However, today these contexts have changed, so it is inevitable to open the debate and discuss the current conditions of community radio stations, under the premise of redefining them from new challenging scenarios. With this purpose the essay appeared: "The Community Radio: How can we redefine it?" This is a proposal that came out aware of the complex situation in which the community radio stations operates in Latin America, as they are criminalized, marginalized and invisibilized by States, monopolies, oligopolies and power groups. In this panorama which is not so easy, we add the fact that they are radios that are also divided by geography, age, culture, language, lifestyles and ways of conceiving the world.