Translators Associations Latin America

This is where Lexis informs you on activities and initiatives, such as training opportunities, conferences and other events, organised by Latin American Translators Associations. If it’s in your professional interest or you represent a translators association in this area, please keep us posted, using the email address editorial@lexis.pro.

Latin America: One of the most ethnically diverse regions in the world

Latin America, where Romance languages are primarily spoken, has 25 translators associations. Its inhabitants are of a variety of ancestries, ethnic groups, and races, making this region one of the most diverse in the world.

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Standing up for professional translators in Peru

The Peruvian Association of Professional Translators is a private non-profit association with 20 years of experience that was formed to provide institutional support for the translating and interpreting professions.

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The opportunity to know and exchange experiences with other professionals across the country

The Chilean Association of Translators and Interpreters aims to protect the interests and regulate the practice of the translating profession, promote the advancement of its members, and contribute effectively to Chile’s economic, cultural and social development.

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Argentine for Translators Association

The Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters (AATI) was created in 1982.

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Translating Monterrey

The Monterrey Translators & Interpreters Association exists since 1980 and has been an important instrument to improve the practice and status of translators and interpreters in the community.

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A historic association in Uruguay

The Certified Translators Association of Uruguay (CTPU) dates back to 1932.

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Enriching the translation market

The Costa Rican Professional Interpreters and Translators Association (ACTIP) was founded on the 1st November 2003.

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The translator of Panama

The Panama Association of Translators and Interpreters (APTI) was founded in 1984 to help the constant human upgrade.

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A translators association with extensive experience

The Guatemalan Association of Interpreters and Translators has been defending translators and interpreters for more than twenty years. Its purpose is to protect the legal, economic, moral and social interests of interpreters and translators in Guatemala.

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In Mexico there's a civil association to promote and support the profession

The Mexican Translators Organization is a civil association that was established in 1992 to promote and support the profession of translators and interpreters.

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Mexican College of Interpreters for Conferences

The Mexican Association of Conference Interpreters is a civil association founded in 1982 to unite professional interpreters.

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Representing translators and interpreters in Peru

The College of Translators of Peru (CTP) was founded in 1996, to join graduated professionals of translation and interpretation.

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Looking out for the official translators

Costa Rica's National Association of Official Translators and Interpreters (Asociación National de Traductores e Intérpretes Oficiales or ANTIO, in Spanish) was founded based on the idea that these professionals work is more important every day.

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Representing Conference Interpreters in Argentina

The Argentine Association of Conference Interpreters (ADICA) was founded in 1979 to represent simultaneous and consecutive professional interpreters in Argentina.

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Encouraging professional growth and research in Peru

Born in the second half of 2008, the Peruvian Academy of Translation is a non-profit association that aims to promote the formation and updating of the Peruvian translators, as well as the field of translation as a professional activity, both in Peru and abroad.

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Supplying interpretation services to the highest levels of the Venezualan society

The Venezuelan Association of Conference Interpreters is based in Caracas and was founded in 1980. It's the leading force in supplying interpretation services to the highest levels of Venezuelan government, the United Nations family, other international and regional organizations and a host of public and private clients.

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Defending independent translators and interpreters in Colombia

The Colombian Association of Translators was established as a non-profit association in 1990 and aims to bring together independent translators and interpreters in Colombia, represent, defend their interests and have the translation recognized as a profession.

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How to draw a translators circle

The North Circle of Sworn Translators (CTPZN) is an Argentine non-profit translators association founded in 1995, by a group of translators who wished to establish a space for exchange and collaboration with other professionals in the Northern area of Buenos Aires.

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A solid ethical commitment

The Association of Sworn Translators of the City of Buenos Aires (Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, CTPCBA) is a non-governmental, non-profit, public law entity accredited by the country’s administration. It was founded on the 25th April 1973.

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A demanding translators association

The Corboba Province Public Translators College (CTPPC) is an Argentine non-profit organisation of professional translators and interpreters founded in 1991. Its origins go back a year before its foundation, when the Corboba Province Interpreters and Translators Association was formed.

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With a clear idea of what academic and professional training should be

TRADUBA arose in response to a set of problems linked to the translator’s career and brings together members that study or have studied in the University of Buenos Aires, a teaching institution that enjoys enormous prestige both locally and internationally.

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An association that underscores the profession's prestige

Established in 1979, the Argentinean Association of Conference Interpreters represents currently more than 60 well known local interpreters and aims to represent simultaneous and consecutive professional interpreters in Argentina and extend the improvement and meaning of their activities.

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Argentinean qualified English-Spanish technical-scientific translators

Founded in 2000 and based in Buenos Aires, the Argentine Association of Technical-Scientific Translators is a non-governmental organization open to qualified English-Spanish technical-scientific translators from all over the country.

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Translating in the south-west of the province of Buenos Aires

The Sworn Translators South Circle was founded in 1998 in Bahía Blanca, a city located in the south-west of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean.

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Santa Fe's sworn translators and interpreters

Based in Córdoba, Argentine, the Association of Translators of the Province of Santa Fe 2nd District was established in 1992 and is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to protect sworn translators and interpreters and the legal practice of the profession.

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Putting the Dominican Republic on the translation map

The Dominican Republic’s Translators and Interpreters Association (ATIRD) was created in 2009, to give a voice to translation professionals in the country.

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Argentina: Translators associations in the country of Jorge Luis Borges

We estimate there are at least 10 translators associations in the country that gave birth to famous writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Roberto Arlt or Ernesto Sábato.

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Colombia: Translators associations from the country of Gabriel García Márquez

The renowned writer Gabriel García Márquez – Nobel Prize for Literature –, the pop singers Shakira and Juanes, the sportsmen Juan Pablo Montoya and Camilo Villegas and the actress Sofía Vergara are some of the cultural ‘ambassadors’ of Colombia, where Lexis estimates there are at least 2 translators associations.

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Costa Rica: Translators associations from the "rich coast"

Once the point where the Mesoamerican and South American native cultures met, Costa Rica gave birth to prominent contemporary authors like Alfonso Chase or José Joaquín Gutiérrez and has at least 2 translators associations.

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Mexico: Translators associations from the country of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Lexis estimates there are at least 3 translators associations in Mexico, a country with an estimated population of over 113 million and one of the world's largest economies.

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Peru: Translators associations in the home of the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa

With an estimated population of 29.5 million people, Peru mixes several cultural traditions and that result in a wide diversity of expressions in fields such as art, cuisine, literature, and music. Lexis estimates there are at least 3 translators associations in Peru.

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Venezuela: Translators associations in the country of renowned writers and novelists

Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America and is a cultural melting pot. Lexis estimates there are at least 2 translators associations in Venezuela.

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The historical consciousness of a Colombian translator

ACTI is a professional guild, non-profitable, founded on the 15th June 1998, by a multinational group of translators and interpreters.

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Latin America: translators associations in the Hispanic America

Latin America is a melting pot of ancestries, ethnics, and races, and one of the most diverse in the world. It has at least 25 organizations devoted to translation.

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From the classroom to classy translations

The National College of Translation and Interpreting Graduates Civil Association is the oldest organisation of professional translators and interpreters in Venezuela.

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One of the most recent translators associations in the world is the Ecuadorian's

The Ecuadorian Association of Translators and Interpreters is a private non-profit institution and it is the first association of its type in Ecuador. It is one of the most recent translators associations in the world and the leading national organization.

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