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| | COMMUNICATIONS-ARGENTINA: Indigenous People On the Air |
 | | BUENOS AIRES, Nov 21 (IPS) - When the project emerged three years ago, it involved communication between indigenous communities within one Argentine province, but it rapidly grew into a larger network that broadcasts their voice from more than a hundred community and commercial radio stations in the north of the country. |
 | | There are about 450,000 indigenous people, belonging to 25 different ethnic groups, in Argentina, which has a total population of nearly 39 million, according to provisional results of the complementary survey on original peoples conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Census. |
 | | The radio show hosts are, in addition to Díaz, Mónica Charole, a Toba from the northeastern province of Chaco, Carmen Centeno of the Omaguaca people in Jujuy, in the extreme northwest, and Sebastián Reyes, a Chane Guaraní from Salta province, which borders on Jujuy. |
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