Since the 1800s, a handful of oligarchs had controlled nearly all of El Salvador’s land, forcing laborers to work for almost nothing. But in 1980, farmers and urban workers formed guerrilla groups to overthrow the US-backed dictatorship. These revolutionaries were attacked from every direction, but a group of rebels refused to be silenced.
UMass Amherst historian Diana Sierra Becerra shares the story of Radio Venceremos, a radio collective that fought a US-backed dictatorship during the Salvadoran Revolution. Check out the video and lesson plan released by TedEd today.