In the most rural areas of Patagonia, residents sometimes don’t have very many means of communicating with the outside world, or even with one another. The Mensajero Rural gives them a way to transmit messages. Several times a day, AM-radio stations in Argentina broadcast short personal messages sent in by residents of these sparsely populated areas. Blood-donation requests, news of missing animals, person-to-person communications, birthday wishes, and death notices all populate the airways of the Mensajero Rural. Even as internet access spreads across impossibly remote areas, AM radio remains a vital means of communication. At the link in our bio, Jordan Salama (@jordansalama19) travels across Patagonia, and talks to the communities that rely on the radio, and the hosts spreading their messages. “The arrival of two-way radios, telephones, and cellphones all changed the way people communicated,” he writes, “but none of those things had made the Mensajero Rural obsolete.”