MIAMI — It had been WGBS-AM, an English-language Talk station owned by Jefferson-Pilot Communications that decided to sell it in order to acquire crosstown WNWS-AM and pair it with its Beautiful Music FM, WLYF. The buyer? Cuban-American businessman Amancio Suárez, who paid $3.5 million for the facility.
Under his leadership, and a few years later that of Heftel Broadcasting, the station now known as WAQI-AM “Radio Mambí” would become a Spanish-language spoken word force for the community still adamant on overthrowing Cuba’s communist government and Fidel Castro.
Now, forty years since its birth, Radio Mambí is coming to an end.
