Posted on 08/22/2022 6:42:21 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot
Founded in 1985 by Cuban exiles, Radio Mambí - named after Cuban guerrillas known as "mambises" who fought for independence from Spain - soon became an influential fixture of Miami's large community of Cuban exiles. The radio gave voice to the exiles' vocal opposition of Cuba's communist regime.
Today, it is still, for many, the sound of Spanish-speaking Florida: A mix of chatter about modern-day Cuba interspersed, on a recent Friday, with calls from listeners opining about the state primary elections on 23 August - and laments about Democratic President Joe Biden's "socialist agenda".
Its influence on the heavily Republican-leaning diaspora is clear: party bigwigs from George W Bush to Mike Pence have frequented its studios. In 2018, one of the station's most popular and outspokenly conservative radio show hosts, Ninoska Pérez Castellón, even scored an exclusive interview with then-President Donald Trump.
But now, a surprise sale of the station to a media start-up with ties to veteran Democrats has sent shockwaves as far away as the halls of power in Washington DC - and, some say, offered a glimpse into an intensifying battle for the attention of Latino audiences, and, by extension, politically vital Latino voters in a key electoral swing state.
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Can't understand, just what does he say?
Soros just took over a big part of Cuban conservative media in Miami, silencing an old and revered voice. I hope they find another one.
Soros can turn all those radio stations into Spanish CNN on the theory that it will convert all the Spanish language listeners into good communists who vote for Soros approved political candidates, or as likely, that they will more readily accept the Democrats imposed on everyone by the enhanced election fraud of 2024 election.
Luckily, Cubans have been trained by the Castro regime to recognize and tune out propaganda. The hosts of the station have moved on, and these days it doesn’t take many resources to put together a good podcast. I hope and predict that left-wing Spanish language radio will fare as well as left-wing English language radio, when they tried to take on Rush Limbaugh.
Air America was pretty funny. All any of them had was invective.
I hope so, but the deep pockets of the left seem dedicated to screwing up the youth.
Hopefully the younger people can be reached and kept truly conservative. I know most of them probably don’t listen to the radio... Though they might if they hear something different from the other very liberal local news sources.
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