Authoritarianism in Latin America in the ‘Democratic Era’

Abstract

This article aims to provide perspective on the Latin American constitutionalism, on the one hand, facing the idea of the Constitution as an expression of rationality, different than that conceived primarily as an expression of popular will. And on the other side, facing the idea that economic development in the region should be given in the pathway that traces the global north. It is assumed that these tensions are not resolved completely in Latin America. This work part of the debate of the term “abusive constitutionalism” proposed by David Landau to show its effect in times of democratic transition on certain countries in the region with authoritarian regimes.