Spanish For Social Change

This translation appears in the fantastic nacla article reposted below on the current protests in Guatemala.  For the record I'm more h...

Radio Ambulante has a fantastic program  here that talks about how you speak in Spanish when you want to avoid having to say estoy cansadO ...

I'm outraged about unethical and environmentally irresponsible Canadian mining in Latin America, and particularly Colombia.  So I'...

No, this word is not in the Oxford dictionary, but as I recently argued on my other blog, decolonizing solidarity , I think that we should...

I'm going to interpret for a large public event in Toronto where parents of the massacred 43 teachers college students will be speaki...

This is sometimes mistakenly rendered as accionistas, which is actually share holders. This is really not movement terminology, it's usu...

I am totally just making this up.  Has anyone heard any other version being actually used on the ground, not in translation? Artivism is s...

A work slowdown is an operación tortuga, but how would you translate a " work-to-rule " action? Huelga de celo? Trabajar a reglam...

I've posted twice before about this term, rendering it as first bogus/trumped up/false criminal charges and then malicious prosecution ...

In the same  interview of a leader in the Dignidad Agropecuaria Colombiana  (Colombian Agricultural Dignity) movement that I mentione...

Similarly cafetero is coffee farmer - and my life is made better by both! I was reminded of this term this great interview of a cafetero le...

The research project on ethnicity and race in Latin America ( PERLA ) has published their findings in the new book Pigmentocracies .  I have...

The cognate colourism also exists in English, but shadeism (sometimes spelled shadism ) seems to be more widely used and understood. Thank...

This translation jumped out at me in the chapter Occupy: prehistories and continuities by Samantha Shakur Bowden. Not sure where she got it...

The University of Geneva's interpreting department has a fabulous sounding program called InZone , the Center for Interpreting in Confli...

I often hear people keep the term caudillo when going into English.  But many audiences will not understand this term and all of its cultu...

Another great term from the video I posted last week, which is well worth a watch. It's a pleasure to see subtitles so well done. Congra...

Great rendition by compa Eric Schwartz in the great video below, also about land grabs in Colombia.  (Ojo, he also renders Proceso de Comun...

I have previously rendered despojo as disposession, but this rendition could have more impact for political purposes if it fits the context...

Collins (astounding that they would have a term like this) renders it as baja colectiva por enfermedad como forma de protesta.  It seems to...

This is the translation used by the organization Mujer in Toronto for their domestic violence campaign with this title. As part of the camp...

As in the dregs of society, la hez de la sociedad. The of 'society' part can get dropped in slang English, as in, 'look at the d...

ok, this is obvious, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who has heard and read the false cognate of capacitate used instead! It might...

femicide and feminicide are two different things as the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission puts it: What is femicide? Femicide is def...

Amazing debate in the Colombian Congress today about Uribe's paramilitary ties.  I'm in awe and deep gratitude for the courage of ...