The Cultural Survival staff and volunteers from community radio stations continue to meet with leaders of the Guatemalan Congress about the Community Radio Law (Bill number 4087). Cultural Survival is working with 205 community radio stations in Guatemala to legalize community radio broadcasting. The hurdle continues to be getting the bill on the agenda for a vote by the full Congress.
Roberto Alejos (President of the Congress) argues that this initiative deserves to be given special treatment and has set up a new working group to make changes to Initiative 4087 so that it will pass when finally voted upon by Congress. This group will include Congressmen, the commercial radio stations, the Telecommunications Administration and representatives of the community radio movement. Alejos also went a step further and said he will ask the commercial radio stations to suspend the negative media campaigns against community radio while they analyze, discuss and vote on Initiative 4087.
