The Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora (Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women) was founded in 1992. The Alianza Estratégica Afrodescendiente (Strategic Afrodescendent Alliance), founded in 2000 in Santiago de Chile, convened to create a platform for the third World Conference against Racism (WCAR) held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001. Romero Rodríguez, a black intellectual activist from Uruguay, titled an article Entramos negros y salimos afrodescendientes ("we went in black and came out Afrodescendants"), arguing that the Santiago conference was crucial for the establishment of the term afrodescendiente as a strategic political identity that united black movements throughout Latin America and eventually across the global African diaspora. The proclamation by the General Assembly of the United Nations of 2011 as International Year for People of African Descent and 2015 as the beginning of the International Decade for People of African Descent demonstrates the global dissemination of the terms 'Afrodescendent' and 'Afrodescendant'. Their widespread use has also contributed to their appropriation by agencies of transnational capital, such as the World Bank, and branches of the American imperial State, including the United States Agency for International Development.