{"id":35731,"date":"2019-01-27T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35731"},"modified":"2019-01-27T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T11:55:33","slug":"seeking-information-1959-radio-progreso-broadcasts-by-daniel-fignole-and-louis-dejoie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/seeking-information-1959-radio-progreso-broadcasts-by-daniel-fignole-and-louis-dejoie\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking information: 1959 Radio Progreso broadcasts by Daniel Fignol\u00e9 and Louis Dejoie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SWLing Post<\/em> community: perhaps you can help with an inquiry I recently received. Radio historian, Alejandra Bronfman, writes:<\/p>\n

Dear Thomas;<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a historian of radio in the Caribbean, and David Goren suggested I contact you with a question about some 1959 broadcasts I\u2019m trying to track down. These were produced by Haitian dissidents Daniel Fignol\u00e9 and Louis Dejoie; one in Brooklyn, one in Havana, for broadcast over Havana\u2019s Radio Progreso. They started in January 1959 and ended a few months later. I\u2019m not sure whether they were in shortwave format, though I would guess that they were if they were aimed at Haiti as well as the eastern part of Cuba. I\u2019m looking for any sources at all that might help me fill in the story, which I have mostly from some contemporary accounts, newspapers and US-based official sources.<\/p>\n

Anyway, please excuse the intrusion and the out-of-the-blue nature of my query. I\u2019m trying to hunt down all possible clues that may lead to more source material.<\/p>\n

thanks so much;
\nAlejandra<\/p>\n

Alejandra Bronfman
\nAssociate Professor
\nDepartment of Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you have any information or leads that could help Professor Bronjman, please comment! Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post community: perhaps you can help with an inquiry I recently received. Radio historian, Alejandra Bronfman, writes: Dear Thomas; I\u2019m a historian of radio in the Caribbean, and David Goren suggested I contact you with a question about some 1959 broadcasts I\u2019m trying to track down. These were produced by Haitian dissidents Daniel Fignol\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288],"tags":[1800,7575,7576,1396,2196,1212],"class_list":["post-35731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-cuba","tag-daniel-fignole","tag-louis-dejoie","tag-radio-havana-cuba","tag-radio-progreso","tag-rhc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9ij","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7439,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/radio-progreso-signing-on-at\/","url_meta":{"origin":35731,"position":0},"title":"Starting tonight, Radio Progreso on shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Arnie Coro at Radio Havana Cuba, the Cuban medium wave broadcaster Radio Progreso will begin an \"experimental\" shortwave broadcast on\u00a04,765 kHz from\u00a000:30 till 04:00 UTC on October 1st, 2013.\u00a0For those of us living in North America, this broadcast will begin at 08:30 PM EDT tonight. 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