XEVFS-AM (''La Voz de la Frontera Sur'' – "The Voice of
the Southern Border") is an
indigenous community radio station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
* Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
* Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
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that broadcasts in
Spanish,
Tojolabal,
Mam
Mam or MAM may refer to:
Places
* An Mám or Maum, a settlement in Ireland
* General Servando Canales International Airport in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (IATA Code: MAM)
* Isle of Mam, a phantom island
* Mam Tor, a hill near Castleton in t ...
,
Tseltal,
Tsotsil and
Popti (otherwise known as
Jakaltek) from
Las Margaritas in the
Mexican state
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of
Chiapas
Chiapas (; Tzotzil language, Tzotzil and Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, ...
. It is run by the
Cultural Indigenist Broadcasting System (SRCI) of the
National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI).
History
XEVFS signed on April 27, 1987.
The broadcast facilities of XEVFS were seized by the
Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in their January 1994 uprising and used to transmit rebel message
In December 2016, the CDI obtained an FM frequency, XHSEB-FM 91.7, to convert XEVFS into an AM-FM combo. However, the station's technical proposals ran into problems precipitated by the primary locality designation of San Sebastián. The proposed coordinates to operate XHSEB-FM were 45 km from the locality of San Sebastián, far beyond the reference distance of 28 km for a Class AA radio station. As such, the INPI surrendered the concession in a letter dated March 19, 2019.
RPC: #033763 Surrender — XHSEB-FM
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External links
XEVFS website
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References
Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas
Radio stations in Chiapas
Radio stations established in 1987
Daytime-only radio stations in Mexico
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