Radio Globo is a

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station operating in

Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa (, , ), formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( es, Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz'', is the capital and largest city ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

. It is known for its opposition to the

2009 Honduran coup d'état The 2009 Honduran coup d'état, part of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, occurred when the Honduran Army on 28 June 2009 followed orders from the Honduran Supreme Court to oust President Manuel Zelaya and send him into exile. Zelaya h ...

as well as being the radio station for 24/7 news channel

Globo TV TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Gr ...

. It is owned by Alejandro Villatoro. The station is headed by

David Romero Ellner David Romero Ellner (died 18 July 2020) was a Honduran journalist, lawyer and politician. He was a Liberal party congressman and formerly mayor of Tegucigalpa. He was director of Radio Globo and Globo TV. He was known for his investigations into co ...

. On September 25, 2009, David Romero asserted that Jews are a problem in Honduras, and supported

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and the

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. The ''Association of Descendants of Sephardic Jews in Honduras'' issued a public statement against Romero Ellner. On September 28, 2009 it was taken off the air by the de facto Honduran government, which was able to do so due to a decree suspending some articles of the

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, On October 19, 2009 it went back on the air. It was awarded an

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for the best Iberoamericanan radio station for the team effort of fighting against the censorship of de facto government in 2009.

References

External links

Official site
Radio stations in Honduras Antisemitic attacks and incidents {{Honduras-stub