¡Never again without us! The imprint of feminism in social movements in Latin America in the XXI century. The cases of Ecuador and Chile

Abstract

The text explores the so-called social outbreak in Latin America during 2019, taking as case studies Ecuador and Chile, whose focus of analysis is the demands that women have installed in the social movements of the 21st century. It is interesting to examine the forms of articulation of their speeches, whose slogans have found an echo in the different manifestations, one of them "¡Never again without us!", makes visible the historical demands in a large part of the region, and which acquires urgency in the face of reproduction systematic violence experienced by women. The proposal suggests that the crisis of the nation-state, whose basis is the exacerbation of capitalism, has generated a fissure that allows the acceleration of processes of historical vindication; Among them, the emergence of indigenism, feminisms and diversities, whose central criticism is that the classic formula of understanding the political has been crossed by gender, class and race biases among others, that is, it raises a profound criticism of patriarchy. Through the coverage that the official and alternative media gave to the mobilizations, the demands that the Latin American feminist movements demand are analyzed, highlighting nuances and particularities that account for the complexity of the problems they denounce.