ABSTRACT
Latin America and Europe have a deep historical link in the connection of resistance and in the construction of practices of transnational solidarity. This chapter analyse the new configurations in the forms of transnational solidarities related to social activism that connects Latin America and Europe from the emergence of Neozapatism to the present. It presents the activist context of Barcelona and its nexus with Zapatistas. The chapter examines the historical process that began in 1994 with the “Zapatista solidarity” until the emergence of the “indignados solidarity” in the post-economic crisis of 2008/2009, which is strengthened in 2011 with the 15M appearance in the Spanish state and with the Movement for Peace, Justice and Dignity in Mexico. In one of the most suggestive works on the geopolitical dimension of transnational solidarity, David Featherstone argues that the construction of the practices involves two processes: the connection of political imaginaries of different parts of the world and aggregation of social and material arrangements.
