From a transnational lens, Rachel Chery's paper considers how Haitian broadcasting intersects with the U.S. imperial imaginary and how these histories were centralized within NARA. From a Maya radio station in Guatemala, Polly Lauer reflects on the informal nature of a radio station’s own collection and Indigenous politics. From Duke University’s Radio Haiti Archive, Laura Wagner interrogates the process of creating an archive in solidarity with station personnel to preserve historical memory. From Uruguay’s online “Terror Archive,” Christine Ehrick contemplates the ethics and morals of public access to leaked radio transcriptions. Together, these papers consider political violence and imperial intervention, as well as the consequent complexity of archival existence in and of itself. The archives discussed lie across four types of institutions: the radio station, the internet, the university, and the U.S. National Archives. Each venue presents different problems and possibilities for recovering radio history and Latin American history more broadly. These papers prompt us to consider who controls these collections, and who may or may not access them. They also illuminate not only the current and future role of the scholar as mediator between the archive and audience, but also the sounds and silences evident amid external intervention. Overall, the counter-archive produced in the study of radio helps restore the literal voices that narrated the hardships, joys, and hopes of twentieth-century Latin America on air.