Radio Poder expands to round-the-clock programming with new director

When the Covid pandemic hit Salem, Vicky Falcón Vázquez quickly saw that vital health care information wasn’t reaching many of the people who needed it most.

Spanish-speaking and Latin American people, many of them working essential jobs, often didn’t get the messages health agencies put out. At a time when people were being told to stay home, many didn’t have that option.

So Falcón Vázquez invited then-Gov. Kate Brown onto her radio show.

For about…