Background
Vera-Zavala was born in Romania. She is the daughter of Chilean film director Luis R. Vera and his Peruvian wife Maria Rosario Zavala.
Vera-Zavala was born in Romania. She is the daughter of Chilean film director Luis R. Vera and his Peruvian wife Maria Rosario Zavala.
She is active in the "Global Justice Movement" and was also one of the founders of the Swedish section of ATTAC in 2001. Her family moved to Sweden when she was young and she grew up in the suburb of Ã…kersberga north of Stockholm. She lived in Brussels for four years, working as an assistant at the Left Party"s European Parliament office.
Vera-Zavala has written mainly in the field of participatory democracy and globalisation.
She has co-authored two books together with the Swedish writer Johan Norberg.
She is a member of the Left Party and an outspoken communist. In 1993 she became a member of the Young Left, the youth wing of the Left Party, where she also served as vice chairperson for some time.