Governança e promoção da democracia na América Latina: uma análise da construção normativa no ambito das organizações regionais

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the normative construction of democracy promotion in Latin America. The event occurs within the Regional Organizations since the 1990s, leading to the elaboration of standards of conduct for States regarding the political regime adopted and meant a major transformation of the treatment granted to this theme which till then was fundamentally national. In Latin America, there is an overlap and competition of organizations that deal with the promotion of democracy, sometimes differing in the understanding of what democracy is, what can be configured as a rupture of democracy and in the possible reactions to the crises it provokes. To reach the proposed objective, this study uses documentary analysis as its main research technique.