XHFCE-FM

XHFCE-FM
City of license Huayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico
Broadcast area Northern Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo
Branding Radio Huayacocotla
Slogan La Voz de los Campesinos
Frequency 105.5 MHz
First air date 15 August 1965
Format Indigenous community radio
ERP 10,000 watts
Former callsigns XEJN-OC
Webcast http://radiohuaya.iberopuebla.edu.mx:8000/xhfce.m3u
Website http://www.fomento.org.mx/radio

XHFCE-FM (Radio Huayacocotla: La Voz de los Campesinos – "The Voice of the Campesinos") is an indigenous community radio station based in Huayacocotla, a community of some 4000 inhabitants in the mountainous north of the Mexican state of Veracruz.

It began broadcasting, with a permit on 2390 kHz, a short wave frequency, on 15 August 1965 as XEJN-OC ("OC" for onda corta), using a 500 W transmitter. On 14 February 2005 the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) granted the station a legal broadcasting licence after 27 years of negotiations, assigning it the call sign XHFCE-FM and a very high frequency (FM) slot of 105.5 MHz.

In its early years, the station's programming focused on adult literacy and numeracy efforts before evolving toward a more general community-radio format: local information, regional cultural dissemination, agricultural news, campesino rights. It carries programming in both Spanish and the local indigenous languages.


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