Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This work analyzes the case of a request issued by the state telecommunications authority to the telephone service concessionaries in 2018 in order to deliver information about their customer database, so they can transfer it to a private nationwide survey company. In this document, we will review Entel’s position as the only company that rejected the requirement due to the consideration that such a request was a violation of the personal data framework established by law. In this context, it will be critically analyzed how the administrative jurisdiction system judged the case in its different stages, and if the new data protection institutionality contemplated in the personal data bill, which is in its final stage, would have or not made a difference in how the case is judged and decided.  

This paper reviews one of the various difficulties in the application of the security measures procedure followed against the mentally ill. These difficulties manifest given the gaps and contradictions inherent in the minimal detail and fragmented regulation that currently exists, and serves only as a supplementary framework. We will examine the scope of the suspension of proceedings decreed in accordance with article 458 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, reviewing whether this suspension impedes the execution of acts of investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the police, the formalization of the investigation and the imposition of precautionary measures, in particular provisional internment. In the study of these matters, the scarce national doctrine that has dealt with them will be considered, as well as various pronouncements by our courts, especially the Supreme Court, to conclude that the above suspension, with some exceptions, does not hinder these actions and resolutions and that, even the omission or postponement of some of them can be to the detriment of the accused.

This work will review the legislation that determines the obligation to submit the Environmental Impact Assessment System before the development of investment projects. Later, we will analyze a selection of judgments issued by the Supreme Court in the last four years (2018-2022), which resolved Protect Actions and ordered the holder of an investment project to enter SEIA. In view of the previous analyses, it will seek to determine the commune standard in the criteria that the Supreme Court has used to configure the compulsory admission of projects to the Environmental Impact Assessment System on the sidelines of the conditions that impose the Law 19,300 as the regulation of the Environmental Impact Assessment System. Finally, a critical opinion will be issued about jurisprudence that has followed the Supreme Court.

This paper describes the principle of proportionality and its infringement as a vice of the administrative act, to analyze and understand the practical application that the General Comptroller’s Office of the Republic has made to this effect in the exercise of its ruling power when auditing and pronouncing on the decisions adopted by the institutions of the State Administration. To this objective, the opinions issued by the auditing body are compiled and structured, carrying out a critical analysis with the expectation that their consideration and application in Administrative Law will increase.

This paper focuses on the decision adopted by the Constitutional Court, regarding a request of inapplicability for unconstitutionality against a provision of Law 18,216. Its purpose is to analyze whether, in the light of this ruling, there would be in Chile an effective access to the benefits of alternative sentences to a custodial sentence, according to the pro-person principle or, on the contrary, an expansion of the restrictions for its granting, in pursuit of effective punitive policies.

In a context of growing recognition of the contribution of women to social and political life, and the consequent pursuit for equal participation, the labor world is still an environment in which these purposes cannot be properly harmonized with the rights based on motherhood and parenting, because our legislation continues to consider the mother as the primary caregiver, granting her a series of permits and benefits that, despite being necessary to reconcile both roles, contribute to maintaining an unequal distribution of family responsibilities between working mothers and fathers, in addition to causing a risk of a disincentive to female hiring.

In 2021, the Canary Island of La Palma experienced a volcanic eruption that lasted 85 days, forcing the relocation of over seven thousand people, two thousand of whom were unable to return to their homes. Within this complex and conflict-laden context of collective healing, we explore a design contribution through cultural and artistic creation as a sociomaterial assembly. Drawing on situated research conducted primarily with women from the rural periphery, this article examines the design of encounters, listening spaces, and networks of affection and care that foster the collection of ancestral knowledge and strengthen collective rootedness. The continuity of the domestic dimension within public spaces is analyzed, with the (sobre)mesa (table talk) serving as both an object and a context in dynamic processes of (re)territorialization.

This article examines the experience of the ‘Taller Social Latinoamericano’ (Latin American Social Workshop) held in Manizales, Colombia, in 2022, focusing on the construction of the Apu Kumanday Classroom. This circular space, along with the cultivation of protected plant species, stands as an act of resistance against a largescale urban renewal project. The article analyzes two defensive design strategies: the barricade and the shell, both conceived to confront devastation. From a situated practice, it examines both the interplay between progress and violence, as well as the dual role of architecture, as both practice and technique. These reflections are shaped through community-based planting pedagogies, resulting in the creation of a ‘green barricade’ designed to protect and strengthen spaces. Design is framed as a political, aesthetic, and social act, aimed at repairing the socio-spatial fabric fractured by processes of dispossession and eradication.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained prominence in public debate, not only as a tool to optimize processes, but also as a dominant narrative of development and progress. These imaginaries, grounded in references from the Global North, tend to define the possible and desirable futures of AI in an exclusive manner. With the aim of decentering these hegemonic visions and creating space for a Latin American situated technodiversity, this article analyzes the implementation of an experimental critical design workshop—carried out with actors from the Chilean technological ecosystem—and its failure to generate alternative imaginaries. Based on this experience, a reflection on the role of failure and ignorance in creative practices is proposed. It is argued that the emergence of failure can activate forms of generative ignorance, opening up fertile methodological and analytical spaces for rethinking our relationship with AI. The article conceptualizes the exploratory notion of an ignorance-oriented design: a practice that learns from excess, stays with the trouble, and recognizes the value of what we do not yet know or cannot anticipate. It aims to contribute to a design epistemology that is committed to the possibilities that ignorance introduces to creative processes.