Un creciente cuerpo de literatura en la intersección de la jurisprudencia y la ciencia política está arrojando luz sobre el constitucionalismo, el derecho y la política en #AmericaLatina.
Estos son algunos de los autores/obras que han escrito sobre estos temas
Gargarella, Roberto @Rgargarella, La sala de máquinas de la Constitución: Dos siglos de constitucionalismo en América Latina (1810-2010) (2014)
Helmke, Gretchen, y Julio Ríos-Figueroa @JulioRiosFigue1 (eds.), Tribunales constitucionales en América Latina (2010). Disponible aquí: uv.mx/veracruz/sea/f…
Negretto, Gabriel @NewBehemot, La política del cambio constitucional en América Latina (2013)
Nohlen, Dieter, Daniel Zovatto, Jesús Orozco, y José Thompson (eds.), Tratado de derecho electoral comparado de América Latina, segunda ed. (2007). Disponible aquí: iidh.ed.cr/capel2016/medi…
Portillo Valdés, José M., Historia mínima del constitucionalismo en América Latina (2016)
Agrego un libro más: Julio Ríos-Figueroa @JulioRiosFigue1, Democracia y militarismo en América Latina (2019). Se enfoca en las relaciones cívico-militares y la jurisprudencia constitucional sobre la autonomía militar y la regulación del uso de la fuerza.
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Here’s a large 🧵thread that combines multiple tweets on transitional justice in Latin America.
1/7. Transitional justice – confronting past human rights violations – has been on the agenda in #LatinAmerica since the 1980s
Violence perpetrated by dictatorships & in civil wars during the Cold War in Latin America has resulted in thousands, even 100s of thousands, of victims
2/7. How might past human rights violations be tackled when political times change?
Cuba in 1959 choose revolutionary justice: show trials&executions
Latin America since the 1980s did better. It sought transitional justice: due process for the accused, truth&justice for victims
7/7. Documentaries and films often bring to life the human dimension and full stakes of social and political issues better than any other medium.
Here are some documentaries and films on transitional justice in Latin America. 🧵
Argentina, 1985 (2022). On the 1985 Trial of the Juntas in Argentina. Directed by Santiago Mitre. filmaffinity.com/ar/film117089.…
The Art of Political Murder (2020). On the murder of Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi, who was killed in 1998 days after the publication of a report on human rights violations. Directed by Paul W. Taylor. imdb.com/title/tt103138…
6/7. The still-unfolding story of transitional justice in Latin America, and its lessons, are told in these books on transitional justice in Latin America.🧵
Amilivia, Gabriela Fried, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America: Transmissions Across The Generations of Post-Dictatorship Uruguay, 1984–2004 (2016)
Collins, Cath, Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador (2010)
González-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. @egocantos, The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America (@Cambridge_Uni 2020)
Lira, Elizabeth, Marcela Cornejo, and Germán Morales (eds.), Human Rights Violations in Latin America Reparation and Rehabilitation (2022)
5/7. Democracies build the rule of law partly by confronting past human rights abuses, ie, by pursuing transitional justice. More justice also makes democracy stronger.
The still-unfolding story of transitional justice in Latin America, and its lessons, are told in these books🧵
Burt, Jo-Marie @jomaburt, Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Civil Conflict: Lessons Learned from Peru, Guatemala and El Salvador (2018)
Freeman, Mark, and Iván Orozco, Negotiating Transitional Justice: Firsthand Lessons from Colombia and Beyond (@Cambridge_Uni 2019)
González-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. @egocantos, Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America (@Cambridge_Uni 2016)
Jelin, Elizabeth, La lucha por el pasado: Cómo construimos la memoria social ( 2017)
La independencia judicial ha aumentado en América Latina. Pero en Cuba, Haití, y Venezuela (agregaría Nicaragua y El Salvador) los tribunales ahora están subordinados a los políticos. Los políticos que abusan del poder necesitan un poder judicial complaciente.🧵
Leyendo The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (2022), me encontré con esta figura.
Los datos por @DrewLinzer y Jeffrey K. Staton, presentados por Matthew M. Taylor, muestran un aumento en la independencia judicial desde 1950.
Latin American courts are not as dependent as sometimes assumed. At least, judicial independence has increased. But in Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela (I would add Nicaragua & El Salvador) courts are now subservient to politicians. Politicians who abuse power need a compliant judiciary.🧵
Source: Matthew M. Taylor, “Courts and Judicial Independence,” in Conrado Hübner Mendes, Roberto Gargarella, and Sebastián Guidi (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (2022), p. 411.
Reading The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (2022), I came across this figure.
The data by @DrewLinzer @ Jeffrey K. Staton, as presented by Matthew M. Taylor, show an increase in judicial independence since 1950.