[67226] in Cypherpunks
Uruguayan 'pirate' radio seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron)
Fri Oct 4 00:41:35 1996
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:00:08 -0700
To: aaron@burn.ucsd.edu (All my recipients)
From: aaron@burn.ucsd.edu (Aaron)
I thought that I had sent this out already to my various private lists, but
it appears that I haven't. From my perspective of involvement in Free
Radio and support for armed struggle, I consider it important.
=46eel free to redistribute this. If you can improve the translation, or
find additional information, please send me a copy.
--Aaron
The Spanish original follows my translation.
La Jornada (Mexico), 23 September 1996
Uruguayan pirate radio equipment seized; transmitted EZLN messages.
Ap y Dpa, Montevideo, 22 de septiembre. Uruguayan military intelligence
services confiscated the transmission equipment of a clandestine radio
station that broadcast messages of Mexico's EZLN, according to the Defense
Minister, Ra=FAl Iturria. He speculated that it could have involved the
promotion of collective armed uprisings, and possible terrorist acts.
According to a report in the Uruguayan periodical El Pa=EDs, the raid on the
broadcaster 'La Intrusa', located in the Montevideo suburban barrio of La
Teja, allowed the discovery of "subversive plans" and radio messages sent
from the Lacandon jungle and from Nicaragua, although not 'codified' by the
military intelligence services. [Can any Spanish speakers clarify the last
clause? See original below.--Aaron]
The Nicaraguan instructional materials contained formulas, systems of
putting together explosives, and some suggestions for illegally obtaining
the various materials necessery for the armaments to reach their maximum
potency.
The instructions were put to music, with Central American rhythm,
explaining directly and even joyfully the means of equipping any group.
In the international communications broadcast by the pirate radio,
reporters, presumably Uruguayan, reported from the Mexican jungle "whole
chapters of tactics useful for confronting the enemy", and these made
reference to impending contact with unidentified inserrectional forces of
Chile, according to the newspaper.
According to a Uruguayan broadcast official, the police operation also
allowed the seizure of propaganda material and materials for making molotov
cocktails that were used by members of the pirate radio station against
patrol vehicles in their area of operation.
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La Jornada 23 de septiembre de 1996
Confiscaron en Uruguay equipo de radio que difund=EDa mensajes del EZLN.
Ap y Dpa, Montevideo, 22 de septiembre. Los servicios de inteligencia
militar de Uruguay confiscaron los equipos de transmisi=F3n de una estaci=F3=
n
de radio clandestina que difund=EDa mensajes del movimiento rebelde Ej=E9rci=
to
Zapatista de Liberaci=F3n Nacional, de M=E9xico, inform=F3 hoy el ministro d=
e
Defensa, Ra=FAl Iturria, quien especul=F3 que podr=EDa tratarse de la promoc=
i=F3n
de alzamientos armados colectivos, y eventuales acciones terroristas.
De acuerdo con informaci=F3n del peri=F3dico matutino uruguayo El Pa=EDs, el
allanamiento a la radiodifusora La Intrusa, ubicada en el barrio suburbano
La Teja, de Montevideo, permiti=F3 descubrir ``planes subversivos'' y
mensajes radiales enviados desde la Selva Lacandona y de Nicaragua, a=FAn no
codificados por los servicios de inteligencia militar.
El material instructivo nigarag=FCense conten=EDa f=F3rmulas, sistemas de
ensamblado para explosivos y algunas sugerencias para la obtenci=F3n ilegal
de los distintos materiales necesarios para que el armamento alcanzara su
m=E1xima potencia.
Las indicaciones eran musicalizadas, con ritmo centroamericano, dijo, al
explicar directa y hasta alegremente el modo de pertrechar a cualuqier
grupo.
En las comunicaciones internacionales difundidas por la radioemisora
pirata, reporteros, presumiblemente uruguayos, informaban desde la selva
mexicana ``cap=EDtulos enteros de t=E1cticas ejecutables para enfrentar al
enemigo'', y en ellos se hac=EDa referencia a un pr=F3ximo contacto con fuer=
zas
insurrectas de Chile a=FAn no identificadas, precis=F3 el diario.
As=ED, el operativo policial permiti=F3 incautar, adem=E1s, material de
propaganda y elementos para la fabricaci=F3n de cocteles molotov que, seg=FA=
n
dijo el director nacional de Comunicaciones de Uruguay, Ernesto Dhel, eran
utilizados por los miembros de la radioemisora ilegal, contra los veh=EDculo=
s
de patrullaje instalados en su =E1rea de acci=F3n.
