EXCLUSIVE: Prominent Chilean Trans Activist Received Support From Pro-NAMBLA “Homosexual Liberation” Org Head Despite Being Exposed As Child Rapist

Reduxx has learned that a prominent Chilean trans activist recently revealed as having raped a boy had been promoted and supported by one of the nation’s leading LGBT groups – and that it’s founder had previously defended the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).

Rolando Jiménez, founder of MOVILH (El Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual), which has received government funding, provided financial support to pedophile María López Barrera, formerly known as Rodrigo Alejandro López Barrera, for his trans activism.

MOVILH is one of Chile’s leading LGBT activist organizations and has received over 279 million pesos from the government since 2001. The activist group has also received funding from the European Union and countries such as Norway, the Netherlands, and Spain.

According to its website, MOVILH was created in June 1991, and the following year was adopted into the International Lesbian, Gay, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), which has worked with the United Nations (UN) to campaign for changes to laws and policy since 1993.

The Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Gaspar Rivas, presented an award to Féminas Diversas de Aconcagua, a group led by convicted child rapist Rodrigo Alejandro López Barrera.

“MOVILH emerged at a time when homophobia and transphobia were rampant in all spheres of society, when homosexuality was classified as a crime by the State, and when only a handful of people supported the cause, and even fewer acknowledged being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender,” reads the site’s history page.

The MOVILH site vaguely states that during the 90’s, “MOVILH suffered from external divisions,” and broadly states: “While Jiménez and his followers maintained Movilh’s acronym, principles, objectives, and structure and added the word ‘integration’ to the organization’s name, other activists gave rise to new and distinct LGBTI groups.”

What MOVILH’s website does not explain is that the source of the “external divisions” involved founding member Jiménez vocalizing support for pedophilic relationships between adults and children.

In September 1994, ILGA’s consultative status within the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) was revoked over its ties to multiple multinational pro-pedophile lobby groups, including the US-based North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and the Dutch group Vereniging MARTIJN, as well as a Berlin-based group Bundesverband Homosexualität (BVH) which condoned the sexual abuse of minors.

Additionally, a 1985 ILGA resolution proposed the eradication of age of consent laws, reiterated again in 1988 when ILGA declared that “age of consent laws often operate to oppress and not to protect young people.” In 1990, ILGA designated pedophiles as a “sexual minority” worthy of legal protection. As the controversy began to draw widespread attention, some journalists remarked that NAMBLA was not only the first group to join ILGA, but at one point was the only member.

In an effort to restore credibility to their movement within the UN, ILGA member groups opted to expel the pedophile activist networks in a vote that was passed with an 88% majority.

Yet MOVILH founder Jiménez disagreed with the proposal, and voted against ejecting them from ILGA. According to Brazilian academic Leandro Colling, in his essay “Panthers and Dissident Locals: Queer Activism in Portugal and Chile and Its Tensions with the LGBT Movement,” Jiménez was expelled from MOVILH in 1994 after voting in favor of the inclusion of the pro-pedophile political groups.

“However, Jiménez appropriated the MOVILH brand, changing the meaning of the acronym, maintaining the group and taking with him the brand of the pioneering collective. For this reason, some activists say that there are two MOVILHs: the on belonging to Jiménez, who has always held the presidency of the group, the MUMS (Unified Movement of Sexual Minorities), which was created on June 28, 1998, to unify the people of the first MOVILH, and another group called Centro Lambda Chile,” Colling states.

Diego Ríos, a spokesperson for MOVILH, has been quoted as saying: “There’s no difference between the two because there has never been a historical MOVILH; it has always been the same. Its members may have changed, but it has always had the same vision, mission, and political perspective. And the leader has always been Rolando Jiménez.”

Now Reduxx has learned that MOVILH worked with convicted pedophile and trans activist López Barrera, who hid his criminal record by identifying as transgender and changing his name.

As previously reported by Reduxx, López Barrera has been active in Chile’s LGBT scene for decades, and began campaigning for “transvestite rights” under his birth name in the early 2000s after he was made the president of the Aconcagua chapter of TravesChile.

In January of 2004, López Barrera was the subject of an Amnesty International notice condemning the authorities in Chile for not doing more to protect the rights of trans activists. The notice revealed that he had been threatened and shot at in December of 2003, and suggested it was in retaliation to complaints López Barrera had filed complaining about discrimination against transvestites in the region.

Using masculine pronouns for López Barrera, Amnesty went on to demand that “authorities to take immediate steps to ensure his safety, so that he can continue his legitimate work with TravesChile without fear of harassment.”

But just one month after the Amnesty notice was published, López Barrera would be arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a young boy and infecting him with HIV. At the time, López Barrera worked at a brothel called Tower 10, and met the 14-year-old boy when he came to find his mother, who was being prostituted in the building.

According to Fuerza Informativa Aconcagua (Radio Aconcagua), López Barrera pulled the child into a room and locked the door. The boy screamed for his mother and fought against López Barrera, but was overpowered and brutally anally raped by him. The child would later be diagnosed with HIV as a result of the assault. López Barrera was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Last year, López Barrera filed for an order of protection demanding that press be prohibited from revealing his prior name and details regarding the rape of the boy for which he was convicted. While the request was initially granted by the Court of Valparaíso, the decision was challenged by Fuerza Informativa Aconcagua (FIA), a small news outlet and radio station operating out of López Barrera’s region of San Felipe.

On January 1, 2025, the Supreme Court accepted FIA’s appeal, ruling that Barrera did not have a right to prohibit media from reporting on his criminal past. The ruling led to several outlets reporting on how López Barrera had apparently attempted to cover up his previous sexual predation by claiming a transgender status and adopting a feminine name.

However, despite the revelation, Jiménez has continued to defend López Barrera on social media and accused his critics of being “far-right” and “rabid.” According to Jiménez, the child rapist is “a valuable trans leader.”

The scandal caught the attention of Democratic Senator Ximena Cecilia Rincón. In January, just days after López Barrera’s horrific past was revealed, Rincón called for a formal inquiry into the amount of public funds the pedophile had received for his trans activism.

“We demand an investigation into when and under what conditions state aid has been provided to this despicable child rapist, and we will demand that equivalent resources be allocated to guarantee decent and adequate health care for child victims of sexual assault,” Rincón said, and condemned the process which allowed activists to be granted taxpayer funds without rigorous background checks.

In a follow-up message posted to X, Rincón added: “We have requested from the Human Rights Commission that the Executive Branch be notified of the funding provided to this organization, and we have also announced a bill to prohibit organizations comprised of those convicted in these types of cases from receiving public funding.”

Last September, The Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Gaspar Rivas, presented an award to Féminas Diversas de Aconcagua, a group led by convicted child rapist López Barrera, for its work promoting a pioneering Housing Committee for LGBTIQ+ People. López Barrera received the award from Congressman Rivas at a meeting attended by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Karol Cariola.

The two awards presented to López Barrera were inscribed, “to the Aconcagua LGBT Housing Committee for their three years of struggle” and “to María Alejandra López Barrera for her tremendous contribution to the community.”

Special thanks to Nicolás Raveau of Detrans Chile, an organization dedicated to supporting detransitioners, for assisting with the publication of this article.

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