{"id":82808,"date":"2025-12-14T05:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82808\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:16:21","slug":"soros-linked-group-shuts-down-miamis-conservative-radio-mambi-after-three-years-of-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82808\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-linked group shuts down Miami’s conservative Radio Mamb\u00ed after three years of ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami\u2019s longtime conservative, Spanish-language talk radio station will shutter on Friday, only three years after a controversial takeover by a\u00a0George Soros-linked<\/a> group.<\/p>\n

Radio Mamb\u00ed, long connected to Miami\u2019s\u00a0Cuban exile community<\/a>\u00a0and known for its anti-communist programming, was purchased \u2014 along with other Spanish-language stations \u2014 by the Soros-linked group in 2022. At the time, many conservatives, especially right-leaning Hispanics, called it an effort by the left to control the information reaching Spanish-speaking voters. The station is now signing off for good, citing \u201cfinancial challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor four decades, Radio Mamb\u00ed<\/a> has been a gathering place for South Florida and those devoted to the ideal of a free Cuba. Often the market leader in Spanish-language talk, our microphones welcomed presidents, governors, mayors, dissidents and political prisoners, cultural icons, and community voices. We stood with Miami through hurricanes and history. Much like our beautiful city, Radio Mambi, its audience, and the media industry are rapidly evolving, presenting financial challenges for many in the marketplace,\u201d Radio Mamb\u00ed\u00a0General Manager Mike Sena told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, as of 11:59 p.m. on December 12, we will close our live news\/talk chapter and will forge on to new frontiers,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe are proud of this legacy and deeply grateful to the colleagues, listeners and advertisers who made it possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radio Mamb\u00ed will play music and archived programming, remaining the home of the Miami Heat and the Miami Marlins in Spanish-language radio for the \u201cforeseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former host Lourdes Ubieta and analyst Jorge Bonilla claim the shutdown was a plan to silence conservative voices. Instagram\/Lourdes Ubieta<\/p>\n

All live programming staff at Radio Mamb\u00ed will depart. A minimal team, including one sales representative and a board operator, will remain to honor commitments to current advertisers and the station\u2019s sports broadcast partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conservative host Lourdes Ubieta quit <\/a>ahead of the 2022 sale, saying she would never accept a paycheck from anyone connected to Soros. She believes the station suddenly shuttering its talk radio operations is evidence she made the right decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The closure, citing \u201cfinancial challenges,\u201d follows a 2022 takeover by a Soros-linked group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took them less than three years to destroy these stations<\/a>,\u201d Ubieta told\u00a0Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was always the plan,\u201d she continued. \u201cTo silence conservative voices and ultimately eliminate Mamb\u00ed \u2014 an enduring symbol of anti-communist radio in Florida and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Soros-backed group in 2022 created Latino Media Network, a new network made up of multiple Hispanic radio stations, including Radio Mamb\u00ed, and partially financed by Lakestar Finance, an investment group affiliated with Soros Fund Management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stephanie Valencia, a former Obama White House staffer,\u00a0serves as the group\u2019s executive chair. Other board members include Al C\u00e1rdenas, who is married to \u201cThe View\u201d co-host Ana Navarro, actress Eva Longoria and Jess Morales Rocketto, who worked on presidential campaigns for Democratic nominees Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s longtime conservative Radio Mamb\u00ed will end its live news\/talk operations Friday. The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThese women ran the stations into the ground, and now they are shutting them down for good,\u201d Ubieta said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Radio Mamb\u00ed had a streak of 40 years of uninterrupted transmission after being founded in 1985. When asked if politics played a role in the decision, a Latino Media Network spokesperson pointed Fox News Digital to a \u201crapidly evolving media and demographic landscape.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The station will play Spanish music and archived programming for the \u201cforeseeable future.\u201d TNS<\/p>\n

NewsBusters analyst Jorge Bonilla, who hosts a conservative talk show on Radio Libre, a competitor to Radio Mamb\u00ed, has long predicted the demise of the iconic Miami-based station.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe death of Radio Mamb\u00ed was always going to be the endgame once the anti-communist bastion fell into the hands of the Soros-backed Latino Media Network. This is one of those times where I hate being right,\u201d Bonilla told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the battle continues,\u201d he continued. \u201cNotwithstanding the loss of Mamb\u00ed, the left has forever lost monopoly power over the dissemination of Spanish-language news and information in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami\u2019s longtime conservative, Spanish-language talk radio station will shutter on Friday, only three years after a controversial takeover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1016,45866,19241,123,125,124,6142,45867],"class_list":{"0":"post-82808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-cuba","9":"tag-george-soros","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-radio","15":"tag-spanish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}