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Este artículo aborda la importancia que tiene la Jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, su carácter interpretativo y vinculante dentro de los sistemas normativos internos de cada país que han suscrito los tratados y convenios internacionales -tal es el caso colombiano-. El desarrollo del criterio de Plazo Razonable como garantía sustancial y procesal parte de la protección de los Derechos Humanos de las personas privadas de manera preventiva de la libertad, la cual debe ser incorporada en la legislación interna y aplicada de manera obligatoria por los órganos judiciales. Se concluye que en el Estado colombiano, a pesar de nunca haber sido condenado por algún caso en que se demuestre la duración excesiva de la detención preventiva como medida cautelar, sí existen antecedentes jurídicos que evidencian su uso. Algunos casos han sobrepasado el plazo razonable que limita la duración de la medida teniendo en cuenta las sentencias de la Corte contra otros países respecto a este motivo como causal de vulneración de derechos humanos y sobre las valoraciones periódicas acerca del uso de la prisión preventiva en las Américas.

This work has been undertaken as part of the academic project UNA pedagogía para el reencuentro: derechos humanos, educación y literatura en centros de atención institucional de Costa Rica of Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) and the Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IDELA). It covers the problem of prison overcrowding in the Costa Rican penal system: due to this issue, a large number of human rights are violated day by day to the extent of becoming a worrying and urgent problem to address. The country has entered a prison crisis where the dignity of people deprived of liberty has been diminishing with ill-treatment in terms of food, recreation, and health. The accumulation of these factors has generated the constitution of a violent prison culture; human interaction between walls is constituted between tensions and indifference among inmates.

La pandemia del coronavirus ha puesto mayor énfasis en los binomios de la movilidad humana, por tanto, el artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la movilidad humana en tiempos de pandemia, debido a su devastador impacto en el mundo. El análisis define el número de migrantes que se ha desplomado frente a este acontecimiento, interrumpiendo sus sueños y sus planes futuros. Se concluye que, la migración pasa por los contextos de alianzas políticas entre los pueblos y los Estados, creando derechos y obligaciones, pero al mismo tiempo, conceptualizando el clásico poder sobre la libertad, nacionalidad y sus derechos básicos frente a la clandestinidad, lo cual determina la formación de posibles reformas constitucionales.

This work is the result of the project “A pedagogy for reunion” of IDELA. It proposes a theoretical approach for the definition of an overcrowded prison, using as a methodological strategy the testimony and poems of people deprived and formerly deprived of liberty in Costa Rica. Who, from their narratives, describe the experience of inhabiting a penitentiary center from the perspective of everyday life.

Presentacion Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos 34-1.

The study investigates the implementation and functioning of the Productive Development Committee (CDPR) pilot plan in Biobío Region. The objective is to identify facilitators and obstacles during the launching of an institutional design towards decentralization. Methods consist of in-depth interviews to key informants. Results suggest the early functioning of CDPR faced a problem of legitimacy among those in charge of applying the reforms. The research highlights the need to reinforce multilevel coordination, as a key factor of decentralization public policy design. At the subnational level, a high evaluation of bottom-up approaches was observed, which is not necessarily grounded in the assessment of associated benefits and risks. Findings shed light on important aspects that should be observed during the implementation of institutional reforms towards territorial decentralization in Chile and elsewhere.

The participatory budgeting is the principal mechanism of participatory democracy used in Chile at the municipal level. The first case appeared in 2001 in the municipality of Cerro Navia and then was extended to different municipalities in the country. Twenty years after the appearance of this mechanism in municipal management, the balance offers not very auspicious results in quantitative and qualitative terms. The objective of this article is to analyze the evolution of participatory budgeting and to examine the factors that have allowed some cases to endure over time. The municipalities that have implemented it correspond mostly to urban communes, with high to medium development, with the financial capacity to allocate resources and finance projects, but without significant impact on the community. The main conclusion is that its development has stagnated and under the prevailing political and institutional conditions that it developed during these 20 years, it did not become a complement to local representative democracy. It has only been sustained in some exceptional cases where it has been linked to the main instruments of municipal management. The methodology used was the comparative method of participatory budget design and the dimensions of analysis proposed by Goldfrank (2006) and Cabannes (2004) were taken as a reference.

This article aims to analyze corruption in municipalities of the Macro-South zone of Chile, identifying the meanings, networks and practices that make it up as a social phenomenon from the perception of a series of local actors. To accomplish this, a qualitative methodology was used. 159 interviews were conducted between 2017 and 2020 with municipal officials, local authorities, experts on corruption issues and actors (interest groups) linked to the municipality. The main results show that corruption is defined heterogeneously by municipal and private actors. In addition, the importance of personal ties and networks, in addition to trust and reciprocity, for the operation of this phenomenon is highlighted.

This paper depicts popular music as both hybrid dynamics and space of symbolic and material resistance, that is, as an interplay between canonic and subalternized cultural forms. It departs from the idea of hybridity to analyze the adaptability and resistance of cultural movements and, in such way, reflect on the past and present of specific Colombian Caribbean’s societal settings. Three aspects are addressed here to this end: first, the institutionalization of high-end national music and its impact on shaping the vernacular; second, the relationship between the official culture and the “popular”, black, vernacular practices; and third, the interactions between the hegemonic and the subordinate as a means of reconfiguring daily life’s rhythms and styles. The standpoint of this text is essay-like and interdisciplinary, pertaining to cultural studies, and its aim is to contribute to the current debates on culture, marginalization and resistance in the Colombian Caribbean, in particular, and the Hispanic Caribbean, in general.

In this work, we propose an analysis of a fraction of Haitian literature written by women, which focuses particularly on three contemporary narrative works that address state violence during the Duvalierist regime and its material and symbolic effects on Haitian families inside and outside the country. Serving from the concept of “home”, understood as the material and symbolic space for all kinship relationships, literary works by three Haitian women writers, Edwidge Danticat, Emmelie Prophète and Évelyne Trouillot, will be analyzed. Likewise, we will look at how in these literary works parents transfer towards their offspring traditions assimilated by themselves, and which they have incorporated into their everyday lives.