Summary

In Latin America, the 21st century has become a period of opportunities to promote a journalism defined around the recognition of diversity, hybridity, and cultural autonomy in Latin America. After a 19th century characterized by wars of independence, and a 20th century defined by emancipatory struggles against military and oligarchic regimes, the theories and practices of alternative, intercultural, and indigenous communication of recent decades have laid solid foundations for articulating a number of “journalism others” made from and for Latin America and capable of challenging the dominant journalistic cultures and their positivist, objectivist, and liberal imprints. In addition to decolonizing imported and Eurocentric thinking, moving toward the articulation of Latin American alternative and intercultural journalisms involves incorporating critical and indigenous knowledge and its particular conception of communication as a process or system of life. Despite that Latin American journalistic cultures are still dominated by a White colonial stamp, there exists theoretical and practical bases from which to think about intercultural journalisms from Latin America understood as a locus of autonomous thought characterized by its complexity, hybridization and miscegenation.