Peru to Air Quechua News Program in Indigenous First

[Judi Lynn]

Peru to Air Quechua News Program in Indigenous First




Quechua news team. | Photo: TV Peru

Published 8 December 2016 (7 hours 15 minutes ago)



Newscasters in Peru are promoting cultural diversity with the use of Quechua.


Peru will premiere Monday its first all Quechua-speaking news program, in a country where 13 percent of the population speaks the South American Indigenous language.

Public station TV Peru will begin transmitting "Ñuqanchik," or "Us," and will be produced, directed and presented by journalists whose primary language is Quechua, running weekdays at 5:30 a.m.

Hugo Coya, president of the Radio and TV Institute of Peru, said this idea “is the first step towards a big change to start the process of integration."


More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Peru-to-Air-Quechua-News-Program-in-Indigenous-First-20161208-0031.html

[tenorly]

1. Long overdue, considering 13% of Peruvians speak Quechua.

It would be like having not had a single Spanish-language channel here in the U.S. until just now.

On that subject, I wonder how long it will take Trump to try to ram an English-only clause through the FCC...

[Judi Lynn]

2. Shouldn't be long, should it? He doesn't seem like someone who wants to forget revenge,

and will want to strike out at people who didn't appreciate his filthy insults, and didn't support his election.

I hope the Trump image piñata industry only grows!

It's a victory in Peru, of course, because the indigenous people there and in Bolivia have been treated so brutally, so long, with so much disrespect, hatred, contempt. It really has existed everywhere the vicious, greedy, amoral invaders settled, so tragically. It's a real shame US Americans are so wildly unaware of the suffering which continues even now. Most US Americans are deely ignorant of what happens, has happened in their own country.

It could be a good chance for European-descended people in Peru, to use this opportunity to start getting a light awareness of the language so many of the people in Peru have spoken for thousands of years.