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The Journey to the Responsibility to Protect in Latin America

Foro Internacional


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Título	The Journey to the Responsibility to Protect in Latin America ¿Promesas idealistas? América Latina en tiempos de la Responsabilidad de Proteger.

Creador	Serrano Carreto, Mónica del Carmen

Asunto	Latin America crimes against humanity military rule criminal violence drug-related violence derechos humanos crímenes atroces crímenes de lesa humanidad intervención humanitaria

Descripción	This article explores why Latin American countries have endorsed, or objected to, the principle of the responsibility to protect (R2P). Over the past decades Latin American leaders have weighed the relative merits of the principle against the risk of intervention to prevent or respond to atrocity crimes. The article investigates some of the factors that have shaped Latin American leaders´ decisions vis-à-vis R2P. Through an exploration of the various positions held by Latin American countries in international discussions on R2P I aim to account for the role that the region has played in international efforts to develop and consolidate the R2P norm. Drawing on the countries’ recent history we find that those countries that experienced mass atrocities have been more willing to accept the R2P. As the analysis suggests, assessments of the relative costs and benefits of a multilateral solution to atrocity crimes have been influenced by the countries’ own record of massive human rights violation and democratization process. While the article argues that the sympathy shown by many Latin American countries to this principle was deeply rooted in the evolution and practice of human rights norms within the region, it situates current R2P discourse and practice in a context of regional contestation over human rights and rampant criminal homicidal violence. It concludes that in such a context the capacity of Latin American countries to engage normatively with R2P will most likely wane. La inclusión del principio de la Responsabilidad de Proteger (RdeP) y su cristalización en los párrafos 138 y 139 del Documento Final de la Cumbre Mundial de 2005 no hubiese sido posible sin el apoyo de un grupo importante de países latinoamericanos. Este artículo analiza los factores que explican la simpatía que el principio despertó entre algunos países de la región, así como las razones que otros países han aducido para justificar su rechazo a la RdeP. Destaca, en primer lugar, el peso del régimen de derechos humanos en América Latina, así como el entorno propicio de la ola democratizadora en la región. Sin embargo, una de las claves para entender el respaldo a un principio que busca prevenir la perpetración de crímenes atroces, aun a riesgo de intervención, se encuentra en la experiencia misma de crímenes de lesa humanidad.

Editor	El Colegio de México A.C.

Fecha	2017-01-17

Tipo	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Formato	application/pdf application/xml

Identificador	https://forointernacional.colmex.mx/index.php/fi/article/view/2363 10.24201/fi.v57i1.2363

Fuente	Foro Internacional; Vol. 57 No. 1: Vol. LVII, 1 (227) january - march, 2017; 55-108 Foro Internacional; Vol. 57 Núm. 1: Vol. LVII, 1 (227) Enero - Marzo, 2017; 55-108 2448-6523 0185-013X

Idioma	spa

Relación	https://forointernacional.colmex.mx/index.php/fi/article/view/2363/2360 https://forointernacional.colmex.mx/index.php/fi/article/view/2363/2403

Derechos	Derechos de autor 2017 Mónica del Carmen Serrano Carreto