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« What is becoming visible in community radios is the new sense the relations between culture and politics acquire when local or barrio social movements assume radio as a public space, a element which makes it possible to be not only represented but recognized: to ensure that their own voice, with its own languages and narratives, is heard. Feminist movements, gays, NGOs, or community associations look for the right of expression in the radio, the right to be taken into account not through delegation, but through their
own selves. A second element that should be pointed out in terms of cultural production and appropriation in community radios is the recuperation of oral cultures, their modes of saying and narrating, which are those of the immense majority, in a country which, even if people learned how to read, they do not read, because they do not have the economic possibilities, or because it takes a tremendous effort or both things at the same time. And where schooling takes the luxury of ignoring most of the country's oral narratives because the only narratives that are legitimated by the school (…) are indigenous narratives, previous to their translation, of course, to a written text. »