The founding members of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI) gathered this past week in Buenos Aires for the signing of their Bylaws as a civil association. Following the signing of the Bylaws, founding members read and approved the IAPTI Code of Ethics.

Globalization is a truly one-sided affair: It serves the interests of the sports shoe manufacturer, who sells its products at the highest of international prices over those of the exploited workers of Asia who are paid in humble bowls of rice... And it serves those too of exploitative translation wholesalers over those of translators by knocking the bottom out of the market. Once upon a time, there was a foreign exchange situation in Argentina...