Radio AlHara – Samuel Julian Grace

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0:00 – 2:31 (Music)

Radio venceremos is heard
from the center of the mountain,
transmiting its message
with the power of a people in arms.
At 6:00 AM
its transmission is heard,
it’s Radio Venceremos
and it’s the voice of our revolution.
A powerful radio station,
everyone here listens to it,
it’s Farabundo Marti’s guerrilla radio.
It’s a powerful radio station,
everyone here listens to it,
it’s Farabundo Marti’s guerrilla radio.
All the combatants are very motivated
because Radio Venceremos
has them well-informed.
All the combatants are very motivated
because Radio Venceremos
has them well-informed.
It’s a powerful radio station,
everyone here listens to it,
it’s Farabundo Marti’s guerrilla radio.
It’s a powerful radio station,
everyone here listens to it,
it’s Farabundo Marti’s guerrilla radio.
2:31 – 2:51

This is Radio Venceremos, the official voice of the Farabundo Marti for National Liberation Front (FMLN), broadcasting its signal of liberty from El Salvador, Central America, a territory in combat against oppression and imperialism.
2:51 – 3:03 (Music)
The fatherland is
forging the unity.
From north to south
people will mobilise,
from the salt flat
hot and mineral
to the southern forest,
3:03 – 3:19
Radio Venceremos transmits its signal of freedom from the Francisco Sanchez Eastern Front, which is made up of the departments of Usulutan, San Miguel, La Union, and Morazán.
3:20 – 3:47
The people will prevail
The people will prevail
Millions now,
Impose the truth,
They’re made of steel,
Heated battle
Their hand carry
Justice and reason
Woman,
With fire and bravery
You are here now
With the working man.
And now the people–
3:48 – 4:06
This is Radio Venceremos on the air, breaking the dictatorship’s information siege. Radio Venceremos, an expression of popular power over territories controlled by a people in arms.
4:06 – 4:21 (Music)
The people, united, shall never be defeated
The people, united, shall never be defeated
The people, united, shall never be defeated
The people, united, shall never be defeated
The people, united, shall never be defeated
4:22 – 5:18
In this manner, Radio Venceremos begins its broadcasts at this hour, sending a greeting on this, the seventeenth anniversary of the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Tomorrow, May 28th, it will be seventeen years since the foundation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, a sister movement in the Middle East fighting for its national liberation. Radio Venceremos greets the Palestinian people in arms, greets this organization in its pursuit of peace, democracy, and the self-determination of a people in permanent combat against oppression.
5:18 – 5:34
We will overcome, we will overcome. A thousand chains will have to be broken. We will overcome, we will overcome. Misery we will know how to overcome.
End.

Thank you to el Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen for providing and archiving the broadcasts of Radio Vencermos.
Thank you to Federico Julian Gonzales for help with translating.

Radio AlHAra 2026

This segment of the Guerillas Radio Station Radio Venceremos was looped on Radio AlHara for one hour by Samuel Julian Grace on the 17th of April 2026.

Text by Samuel Julian Grace
The historical connection between Palestinian Liberation movements and Salvadoran Revolutionaries is something not very often discussed, but during the 80s the PLO had a close relationship with the leftist guerrillas Fighting in El Salvador.

It makes sense when you see how many Palestinians and people of Palestinian descent are in El Salvador. There is even a square called “Plaza Palestina” in San Salvador along with one named after Yasser Arafat. Many of the guerrillas had Palestinian blood and a small number of Guerrillas were even trained by the PLO in 1980/81.

Throughout the Salvadoran civil war there was a pirate radio station acting as part of the FMLN (The Guerrillas) called Radio Venceremos. It was a radio of struggle and freedom broadcasting hidden deep within the Mountainous Jungle in El Salvador. They provided information about interactions/fights with the army and broadcast songs, speeches and interviews along with other Revolutionary material. Radio Vencermos significantly used music as a way to spread Revolutionary ideas to the masses.

What follows is an except from a broadcast of Radio Venceremos on the 27th of May 1981.

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