Strategies for New Consensuses

Latin American human rights organizations, feminisms, women’s and dissidences’ movements, indigenous peoples’ and Afro-descendants’ organizations, that is, groups that have been attacked historically, developed various strategies to overcome the attacks they receive and to revert the impact of problematic expressions. It is necessary to recover these Latin American social learnings in order to resist and overcome misleading, mendacious, discriminating and violent discourses, but also to find different ways of telling fact-based truths; debating the acceptability of derogatory expressions; and extending respect and recognition for stigmatized, invisibilized and subalternized people. In this chapter I analyze the strategies developed by women’s and sexual dissidences’ social movements in Argentina, Afro-descendants’ movements in Brazil, indigenous people’s movements in Bolivia, movements for peace in Colombia and human rights movements in Argentina as well as by public institutions for memory, truth, justice and peace in Colombia and Argentina in order to face disinformation campaigns, denialism and hate discourses.