Loyola Cultural Action Foundation

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Loyola Cultural Action Foundation
Acción Cultural Loyola
AbbreviationACLO
Formation1966 [1]
PurposeSocioeconomic development
of indigenous people
Location
Region served
Bolivia
Official language
Quechua, Spanish [2]
Director General
Fernando Alvarado [3]
Affiliations Jesuit, Catholic
Website ACLO

Loyola Cultural Action Foundation (Spanish: Acción Cultural Loyola; ACLO) is a network of radio stations in southeast and southcentral Bolivia founded by the Jesuits in 1966, with headquarters in Sucre. It serves the largely indigenous people of this region and has included literacy in its programming from the start. It is currently involved in advocacy and education for participatory democracy in a plurinational state. [4] It has undertaken direct action programs to strengthen community organizations and community-based media.

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Programming

Programming is broadcast in the indigenous Quechuan language, but staff are required to prepare scripts in Spanish. [2] The programming is primarily entertainment oriented. [5] In 1990, the network started broadcasting the farmer education program Tornavuelta. [6]

History

ACLO's roots go back to the Catholic bishops of Latin America at Medellin adopting the option for the poor recommended by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).[ citation needed ] In Bolivia in the 1960s the indigenous farmers were marginalized, with 69% illiteracy and little access to healthcare or government services.[ citation needed ] ACLO used literacy education to make the peasants aware to their own situation and their options. The education was carried on through ACLO's radio stations in Chuquisaca (1971), Potosí (1975), Yamparáeza (1977), and Tarija (1981), along with the newspaper En Marcha. [7]

ACLO has been described as one of the few independent media outlets that covered the 2006 Bolivian Constituent Assembly. [8]

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