La Cadena de las Americas

La Cadena de Las Americas
Company typeSubsidiary of the Columbia Broadcasting System
IndustryRadio broadcasting
PredecessorColumbia Broadcasting System
Founded1941 (1941)
(established at CBS)
DefunctOctober 10, 1949 (1949-10-10)
FateAcquired by Voice of America
SuccessorVoice of America
Headquarters
U.S.
Area served
International
Key people
William S. Paley
Edmund Chester
Paul White
Nelson Rockefeller

La Cadena de Las Americas (also known as CBS Network of the Americas) was an international nonprofit radio broadcasting network which was established through the cooperative efforts of the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA) and the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in an effort to support President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cultural diplomacy initiatives throughout both North and South America during World War II. It served as an early example of the use of soft power by the United States.