DEMOCRACIA COMO DIREITO HUMANO NO CONTEXTO DA REDEMOCRATIZAÇÃO NA AMÉRICA DO SUL: BRASIL, ARGENTINA E CHILE.

Abstract

The history of human rights is reflected in a series of social movements and revolutions that have sought to be heard, and have their rights affirmed and respected. Throughout history, the world has been a scenario of such struggles, from the Liberal Revolutions to the recent Arab Spring. Therefore, it is in the context of this historical and social evolution of human rights that many rights have been internationalized and have become protected and promoted in domestic legal systems. In order to study democracy as a constitutionally safeguarded human right by Brazilian, Chilean and Argentinean laws, it is required to study the influence of the Cold War and the US policy to support the military dictatorships that happened in these countries, taking into account the serious human right violations that occurred during these years. Thus, from these studies, to be able to prove that democracy is a fundamental human right that is the result of the struggle for democracy in the Southern Cone, especially in these three major countries.