  One of the most important events to mark the 1980s was the first Encuentro Feminista Latinoamericano y del Caribe held in Bogotá, Colombia. The Encuentros (“Encounters”), as they came to be called in short, served as regional critical forums for debates about feminist politics and the movement’s overall relationship to social justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. The attendees of the First Encuentro came together on the heels of geographic and political isolation with a desire to carve out a path for autonomous politics. Over the years, the Encuentros extended the map of feminist politics (Saporta Sternbach et al. 1992: 405).