XEVFS-AM

XEVFS-AM
City Las Margaritas, Chiapas, Mexico
Broadcast area Chiapas; part of Guatemala
Branding La Voz de la Frontera Sur
Frequency 1030 kHz
First air date 27 April 1987
Format Indigenous community radio
Power 10,000 watts (daytime only)[1]
Class B
Transmitter coordinates 16°18′55″N 91°58′54″W / 16.31528°N 91.98167°W / 16.31528; -91.98167
Callsign meaning Voz de la Frontera Sur
Owner CDI SRCI
Webcast XEVFS
Website XEVFS

XEVFS-AM (La Voz de la Frontera Sur – "The Voice of the Southern Border") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Tojolabal, Mam, Tseltal, Tsotsil and Popti (otherwise known as Jakaltek) from Las Margaritas in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is run by the Cultural Indigenist Broadcasting System (SRCI) of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI).

The broadcast facilities of XEVFS were seized by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in their January 1994 uprising and used to transmit rebel messages.

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