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Decolonial writers depart from a critical stance toward the postcolonial thought and the consequences of the coloniality of power, knowledge and being. Such perspective is rooted in Latin America and values ??the effects of the global world on colonized subjectivity. In this sense, the works of Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon have been a cry for freedom that was deployed in the territory of the old Third World, a genuine cry of birth of a new subject in a new dawn. Current resonance is not merely an echo, but rather the consolidation of a voice with its own identity, the emergence of a historical subject; an otherness which thinks, values, and feels the world and the relationships among men as a legitimate and autonomous full subject. Latin American psychology has gradually assimilated the principles of dialectics of Césaire and Fanon's decolonization. In the same regard Dussel and Scannone's thought, with their analectical approach, call for the construction of a genuine American identity. In this paper, we reflect on the ideas of these authors in the Social Psychology of Liberation of Ignacio Martín Baró, as we ponder on the relevance of the decolonial shift in psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]