Seattle: More radio stations airing Spanish programming

Paul de Barros from the Seattle Times, reported last month that the number of Spanish-language radio stations serving the Seattle area may double — to four — by the end of the year.

Entercom Communications has arranged for the sale of KNWX-AM to Bustos Media of Sacramento, Calif. KNWX now broadcasts news and business programs in English.

Bustos plans to convert the station to Spanish programming in the fall, with new call letters, pending federal approval.

Recently, another station, KTFH-AM , debuted with 22 hours of Spanish-language programming. By the end of July, says a station representative, it will broadcast in Spanish 24 hours. KTFH is owned by Salem Communications, which operates the Spanish station KKMO-AM (Radio Sol).

The fourth Spanish-language station is KXPA-AM,owned by Multicultural Broadcasting, broadcasts Spanish programming 23 hours daily.

The increase in Spanish-language radio reflects the dramatic rise in the local Hispanic population. Between 1990 and 2002, the number of Hispanics in King and Pierce counties more than doubled, from 65,000 to 146,000. Spanish-language stations nevertheless have a small base, compared with other radio stations.

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Argentinean “Dirty War” Survivor Speaking Tour

Patricia Isasa is an architect leaving in Buenos Aires. When Patricia was 16 years old, her high school activities led to her being kidnapped, tortured, and illegally held for nearly 3 years. She survived, when many like her did not. Thanks to her relentless efforts in exposing and bringing to justice her captors and torturers, several of them are now in jail in Argentina. The film "The Fence" relates her story, and how she erected a fence around her torturers from which they eventually could not escape.

Patricia is coming to the United States to share her story. This story has recently been made into a feature television documentary about to be aired in Argentina. She will show her documentary to audiences throughout the U.S. and she will speak and take questions. She will be in Seattle from Saturday, November 5 (A.M.) through Tuesday November 8 (A.M.).

Below is a brief account in Patricia's own words.

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"El Cerco" (The Fence) Documentary

The title was chosen in reference to the "fence" that I constructed over the years to be able to incarcerate and later try my repressors in court.

What did I do?
I created an investigative documentary that would testify to my accounts. During a little less than a year I collected more than 2000 pieces of data to be able to turn them over to the justice system, so that my repressors would be tried. I constructed an entire list of all the names of the police from the province between the years 1975 and 1981. I used around 5000 photocopies. I constructed a list of the 125 denunciations of those people who were disappeared in the cities of Santa Fe Province. We suspect that there are more than 3000 people who were disappeared who have not denounced their captors. The main reason is fear in general. I created a list of the 18 armed "conflicts" that left a result of more than 35 people assassinated ^Whose bodies were recovered- and around 10 "disappeared" -people who were taken alive and were later disappeared. I created a list of the military, police, and judicial chain of command involved in the repression, with a copy of their code names. Today 9 of these people are being processed awaiting a trial that has taken too long to realize. I created a list of the exact location- street addresses- of the different torture, concentration, and extermination camps within the whole city, located in more than 15 different areas. I created a list of all the children whose names and identities were changed and appropriated, due to the disappearance of their pregnant mothers. Three of them have recuperated their true identities. I created a list of 200 kidnapped people who later were apparently legalized. I recreated the circuit of logic about the repression. The system that the government used- from legalization to the assassination of people. I discovered the judicial declarations of ex-repressors who explained their methodology. I organized all of this documented information to be submitted to any judge who would be interested in creating justice. I created a list of those belonging to LA PATOTA, the repressive group who kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated people.

History
During these years I was simply telling my story. But a slip of fate made me change my ideas, and made me realize that it WASN'T ENOUGH to tell my story, rather it was necessary to have the information documented, being that various times people have doubted my word.

With all of this material I went to Spain to declare myself before Judge Baltazár Garzón. Upon declaring myself he ordered the capture of the first 6 implicated. At that time they were: Victor Brusa-Federal Judge Mario Jose Faccino Corner Intendent Alberto Ramos Municipal Worker of Santa Fe Hector Collombini Chief of Police of Dangerous Drugs and Chemicals Juan Calixto Perizzotti Police Worker Maria Eva Aebi Police Worker- the only woman implicated by Garzón- Today all have been removed from their positions!!!

After all of this I was asked to make the movie. It seemed like an incredible idea, to be able to return to the places- which still exist- where these aberrant events occurred. So I went back to the places where I was kidnapped, tortured, etc. We were able to include the testimonies of 3 of my repressors:

Victor Brusa-Federal Judge- who I interrogated- Mario Jose Faccino Corner Intendent -who was the Chief of the Concentration Camp- Alberto Ramos Municipal Worker of Santa Fe- who was the kidnapper and torturer- they speak in the film. In Argentina impunity is so common that they did not mind speaking in front of the camera!!!!

The film also includes my visit to the house where I was born- where I was kidnapped; to my high school, and to friends who were kidnapped with me. This is the history of my film.

Today there are 8 repressors in jail, because the list grew to include 2 high-ranking military officials. Lieutenant Nicolas CORREA and Sub secretary of Security of the Province, and MARCELLINI, ex-student of the School of the Americas!!! The first student of the school to be jailed in Argentina.