The Inter-American System of Human Rights today lives tensions and vulnerabilities that reflect the impact of the profound political changes experienced by the national states of the region in the late 20th century. The strengthening of the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights in recent decades has resulted in natural elevation of the rigor with which these bodies monitor and tighten the governments of countries linked to them, creating conflicting reactions. This dispute has a historic past and a dynamic that can not be ignored in the search for appropriate interpretation of recent events, with a view to finding solutions and ensuring new cycles of strengthening. Without this discussion, the system runs the risk of resurrecting the failed anteposition between rights of freedom and rights of equality, as if it were admissible to establish hierarchy between them.
Human Rights; Interamerican System of Human Rights; OAS; reform of Interamerican System of Human Rights