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1. This document discusses the concept of translation as erasure, where translation serves to expand the epistemic territory of modernity by rendering invisible anything outside its parameters of legibility. 2. It provides examples from Latin America of how the writing of history and geography in those areas meant erasing local histories, geographies, notions of memory, land, and language. 3. Translation reveals the coloniality of power and epistemic violence that enabled the expansion of modernity. It

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