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XHTRO-FM is a community radio station on 94.1 FM in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca. It is known as La Perla de la Mixteca and owned by the civil association Tlaxiaqueños Radicados en Oaxaca, A.C.

History
La Perla de la Mixteca has a considerable history as a pirate station, during which time it operated on 96.5 MHz. It was one of four pirate radio stations in Tlaxiaco shuttered in early 2016 by the Attorney General's Office, which detained a janitor who had nothing to do with the operation of the station. The station had been on air for eight years before being dismantled and had already applied to the Federal Telecommunications Institute for a social concession.

In December 2016, the IFT approved a number of new social and community radio stations in Oaxaca, among them one for La Perla de la Mixteca (incorporated as Tlaxiaqueños Radicados en Oaxaca, A.C.). With the concession, the newly minted XHTRO-FM moved to 94.1 MHz.

On two occasions, station personalities have received death threats. In 2014, José Yuri Arias Cruz, the station's legal representative, received several threatening messages from a former mayor of Tlaxiaco; three years later, Soraya Abigail Arias Cruz received a phone call threatening to kill her.