Social Movements, Public Institutions, Demands, Results and Opportunities

Acknowledging that focalized responses to problems in public communication are not efficient enough, and, what is more, some of them increase the risks that they supposedly attempt to overcome does not mean giving in to the supposed inevitability of disinformation, denialist and hate discourses. Instead, I argue that new alternatives have to be sought. In Latin American societies, women’s and dissidences’ movements, indigenous peoples’ and Afro-descendants’ organizations, human rights organizations and participatory public institutions for memory, truth, justice and peace have developed strategies to overcome the attacks they suffer, to revert the impact of problematic expressions on communication, social bonds, subjectivities and politics, and to promote new consensuses on truth, justice and sincerity. That is why their learnings should be revisited in the light of the new conditions and characteristics of problems in public communication. To this end, in this chapter I analyze their collective trajectory, the basis of their prestige and their achievements.