"Radio in Latin America — The economic problems and the problems of key personnel: urgency regarding the training of staff, the problems of technical facilities encountered by those in charge of the communication media are quite enormous — The author talks about the work done at present by those in charge and about the practical methods now used in this sector, and the reaction of the public — Radio news items and the printed press — Content of programmes — Distribution of national and international news and the space given to Latin American news — The author gives percentages (news, miscellaneous items, stories, political information, etc.) — He stresses the need for new ideas and for training young people in order that their skills may help solve the present problems — This new generation, which is technically highly trained, rasies once more the problem of the training of information experts — CIESPAL (Centre for the training of Latin American journalists)." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1604, topic code 210.0)