LEGITIMACY OF THE COMMUNITY RADIOS OF MARACAIBO MUNICIPALITY

The community radios in Venezuela have achieved a development without precedents in the last 10 years. Nevertheless, beyond the existence of the same ones there is important the position that they occupy or that the communities grant them in the environment where they develop, overcoat taking in counts the importance that the civil participation has taken and the evidences that the above mentioned radios have constituted in a tool for the intervention before the public organizations in the search of the resolution of the community problems. The aim of the paper consists of analyzing the legitimacy of the community radios of the Maracaibo municipality, so that it could have knowledge brings over of the acceptance on the part of the communities and the recognition of the same ones as tool of participation that can be used in benefit of the democracy. For this an analytical - descriptive type of research was carried out, with a not experimentally, field design. Obtaining information across semistructured surveys of the members of the communal councils that were fourty six (46) related with the community radios enabled by CONATEL in the municipality to the date. The data was analized by SPSS. It is possible to advance the importance of the use of the radios as tool of communication and support of the communities, which of one or another way will determine the legitimacy granted to the same ones, nevertheless, also it exist significant differences on the social organizations that of one or other one form have bordered to achieve completely the above mentioned legitimacy.