The article "Pedro Lemebel revelación y rebelión en sus crónicas desde el margen" written by Professor Fernando Checa Montúfar will be published by la Revista Palabra Clave, a journal on the field of communication and its relation with society from Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. 

The article is about research done on Chilean writer and activist Pedro Lemebel's chronicles published in his book "Loco afán" Crónnicas de sidario".  The study analyzes the chronicles that reveal the dark side of society through an etnography of the daily life of outcast Chilean homosexuals who question coloniality and biopolitics in an unfair, racist, patriarchal, homophobic and disciplinary society like the one in Chile in the era of Pinochet and then in democracy.

This research is part of bigger project, from his doctoral thesis, on the chronicle of Ecuador and Latin America which analyzes how this genre developed in the XIX century and the start of the XX century. 

Professor Checa Montufar was invited by the social communication major at UPS; he received his master's degree at Universidad Andian Simon Bolivar in Ecuador and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Michigan in the USA. From 2009 to 2014 as the general director of CIESPAL he strengthened the institution academically, especially in research and publication and repositioned it internationally. 

Professor Checa is the author of academic journals and books such as "Economía política de la información: hegemonías y resistencias" (CIESPAL, 2014), "El medio mediado. Una mirada crítica al discurso mediático (CIESPAL, Serie Veeduría, 2011), "De Angostura a las computadoras de Uribe: prensa escrita y crisis de marzo (coordinador, ABYA YALA - UDLA, 2008), "Personas entre dos mundos: la migración imaginada en la prensa ecuatoriana" (Quito: ALER, 2008), "El Extra: las marcas de la infamia. Aproximaciones a la prensa sensacionalista"  (Corporación Editora Nacional -Abya Yala  - Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, 2003).