Bolivian miners’ union radio transmitters counter official media blackouts and unite workers.

Evidence

In Bolivia the miners have more than transistor radios. The principal mineworkers’ unions have their own radio transmitters. And the miners’ radios are one of the great instruments of progress in Bolivia. When there is an attempt on the part of the press and official radio to hide the fact of a miners’ strike by not reporting it, the miners’ radios inform all of Bolivia—and beyond, for they are short-wave transmitters that can be heard as far away as Peru and Uruguay. When the army tries to isolate one mining district from another, the miners’ radios communicate with each other and unite the different union locals. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 22

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fanon’s editor (Sartre, writing this preface) cites the 1964 Sora Sora defeat — worth verifying as a Bolivian historical event.
• XREF: connects to: Bolivian miners gave days of monthly wages to buy union radio transmitters. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 23

Related

• Bolivian miners gave days of monthly wages to buy union radio transmitters. (similarity 0.90)

Broader Connections

• Bolivian miners gave days of monthly wages to buy union radio transmitters. #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 23