Diana Sierra Becerra Produces TedEd Video on Radio Venceremos

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 U.S.-backed dictatorship. These revolutionaries were attacked from every direction, but a group of rebels refused to be silenced.

This week, UMass Amherst public historian Diana Sierra Becerra and TedEd shared the story of Radio Venceremos, a radio collective that fought a U.S.-backed dictatorship in El Salvador.