Episode 26: On the Guatemalan Radio, Intro to Banana Land
Wetwired
Jonathan
Aug 10, 20264 March 2023
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This is the story of a fragile democracy, a foreign sponsored coup, and a pirate radio station. On May 1, coinciding with the worker’s holiday May Day, in 1954, Guatemalans found a new station on a previously unused band of their shortwave radios.
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South of the United States, the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea once were known as the Spanish Main. This was because pirates sailed along these shores. Today, fast white steamships travel across the
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