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Hablar de radio y democracia en América Latina es hablar de poder constituido, del modo en que se ejerce en perjuicio de las grandes mayorías sociales y de ciertas minorías y hablar de la necesidad de confrontarlo y revertirlo. Refiere a las radios populares como instrumentos que ayudaron a la lucha que se desarrollaba sustancialmente a nivel político, sindical, y hasta en enfrentamientos armados en suma hacer radio se concebía para producir realidad.

Hablar de radio y democracia en América Latina es hablar de poder constituido, del modo en que se ejerce en perjuicio de las grandes mayorías sociales y de ciertas minorías y hablar de la necesidad de confrontarlo y revertirlo. Refiere a las radios populares como instrumentos que ayudaron a la lucha que se desarrollaba sustancialmente a nivel político, sindical, y hasta en enfrentamientos armados en suma hacer radio se concebía para producir realidad.

This article elaborates a feminist digital activist perspective on the Colombian national strike of 2021 through the work of two women-led collectives (colectivas) in which I participated from afar, as part of the Colombian diaspora. Radio Lila is a collective of women living in Cali's oriente, and Cacerola Collective is formed by Colombians in the diaspora, mostly people working in the creative industries. Through the study of these colectivas's praxis, this article argues that women-led collectives use digital tools and the internet not only to set up political actions but also to create online places for care and mourning. This argument makes conspicuous how there is a gap in the research on digital activism, concerning the emotional tools activists seek to transit political uprisals and their aftermaths. In other words, we see here how feminist research on social media can also focus on retreating, going offline, as a way of personal and communal care.

A review essay on books by (1) Peter Grose, Operation Rollback: America's Secret War behind the Iron Curtain (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000); (2) Gregory Mitrovich, Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956 (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 2000); & (3) Arch Puddington, Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Lexington: University Press Kentucky, 2000). Gross & Mitrovich offer fresh insights that negate textbook accounts of the Soviet policies of Presidents Harry S. Truman & Dwight D. Eisenhower to show that it was Eisenhower, not Truman, who pursued containment, which ultimately proved to be successful, while the unsuccessful "roll-back" policy usually blamed on Eisenhower was actually a Truman creation. Mitrovich's work, which focuses on the making of policy by government officials, reveals the impact of infighting among government departments over control. Grose's volume, which emphasizes partisan politics, reveals the cynicism of an experienced journalist. Puddington assesses the Cold War from the perspective of the impact of foreign radio broadcasts. He shows how the widespread use of short-wave radios allowed Radio Free Europe & Radio Liberty to change the consciousness of people within the Soviet bloc in a way that eventually destroyed their will to defend a system in which they had lost faith. J. Lindroth