Spanish For Social Change

In Mexico a plantón is a somewhat long term encampment, a protest camp occupy style. The Mexican teachers union (the largest union in the Am...

according to wikipedia, "A sit-down strike is a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed ...

a regular fanny pack is just a canguro, at least in Colombia

Many thanks to my fab compas Kath and Fiona who have had extended conversations with me about this.  The term is often used to refer to bloc...

As in, vamos a transversalizar género en esta conferencia - so as opposed to having break out sessions just on gender it's going to be d...

Wayside (in Virginia) is doing another training led by fabulous colleagues of mine from October 25 - 27th.  It's aimed at bilingual ac...

I am yet again helping to organize the interpreting at the vigil to close the School of the Americas - a US army training camp for Latin Am...

These are widely used by both paramilitaries and mining companies in Colombia.  Pacific Rubiales, for example, has responded to outrage and ...

well, actually petard would work fine with a British audience, but in the US you might do better with the unwieldy term "small homemade...

Having gotten my medical interpreter certification from the state of Washington way back in 1994, I'm stunned to have learned that Cali...

Yes, it is something like land-use planning, but it is different enough that I like this rendition that sounds slightly odd in English, aler...

There is a new resource book out: Conference Interpreting: A Student’s Practice Book (Routledge, 2013) by Andrew Gillies.   Check out thi...

In Colombia young men are required to do military service.  Batidas are military raids in poor neighborhoods that target youth who have avoi...

Yesterday the Colombian National Centre of Historical Memory issued a major report on the Colombian conflict, entitled in Spanish, Basta Ya...

I have blogged before about the term tutela , which is the Colombian version of what is more often throughout Latin America called amparo. ...

beware of the different connotations of words!  in Guate this implies a plantation in Col it can often mean a vacation home, with a little...

if you're anywhere near Ithaca check this out! and if not, maybe you'll be inspired to set up something like this in your area nex...

chanta (Argentina): bullshitter no comment on my week.  really.  

If you interpreted this as the right to life, would your listeners think you meant an anti-abortion movement? If the context doesn´t make ...

there has been a lot of coverage of these in the media here lately because the government has been squeezing the water balloon and moving...

thanks to Siobhan Ring for asking this one.   this is for outreach work in the States, so can anyone think of a simpler and easier to und...

as I've posted before, commodities are often rendered as mercancía, yet in some contexts productos basicos works much better. I was...

procurador general: inspector general There was recently a heated debate about the peace process between these two men, described here ,...

I've posted about this one before , but I was moved to repost this because I saw the cognate (judicialization) used again and want to em...

the fabulous newsletter sent out by Cross Cultural Communications (which I highly recommend subscribing to) pointed me this week to the la...