Carlos Henríquez
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, also known as “Santiago,” was born in the Venezuelan Andes. He studied journalism in Caracas. In 1972, he travelled to Managua, Nicaragua, destroyed by the earthquake, to help the victims. Later, he got involved as a journalist in the opposition against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. In 1979, after the fall of the dictatorship, he participated in the establishment of alternative media in the region. In December of 1980, Henríquez Consalvi travelled to El Salvador and established Radio Venceremos in areas controlled by the insurgency—a radio station that he would keep clandestine for 11 years. After the Peace Accords were signed, he established the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen [Museum of the Word and Image] with the purpose of rescuing the Salvadoran cultural and historical heritage with exhibitions and audiovisual productions that travel throughout El Salvador and other countries. The Museum holds the complete Radio Venceremos archive, more than 50,000 photographs, and personal testimonies of the Salvadoran Civil War. The Museum highlights the role of memory, social justice, human rights, and non-official histories. He received the Prince Claus Award for outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development. He was a member of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme Committee for Latin America (MOWLAC) from 2014–2017.