ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the transnational networks that bridge the gap between social organizations of the Global North and South more directly, specifically between Europe and Latin America. It explores the lines of interregional articulation in the globalization processes, during the cycle of solidarities that began with the Zapatista uprising in 1994 and ended with the world economic crises that began in 2007. The chapter examines how Ibero-American geopolitical representation, usually promoted by the governments of the Spanish-speaking Latin American republics, plus Portugal and Spain – especially the latter–become a space of counter-representation. It explains briefly below how spaces of resistance to neoliberal globalization that use Ibero-American space as a reference to alternative potential have been constituted. The chapter analyses two examples in the field of Ibero-American relations: the creation and operation of certain Internationalist Solidarity Committees in Spain and Portugal and of the bi-regional network Enlazando Alternativas, which brings together social organizations and movements from Latin America and Europe.
