Los estados fallidos y el estado social y democrático de derecho en los países de América Latina

Abstract

In 2005, the Foreign Policy magazine as well as Fund For Peace Organization publisheda document where 76 states where pointed as “failed”. Those states were settled in twocategories. In one hand, there was States on Alert, where the countries did not fulfill theessential functions to become a “state”. On the other hand, States in Danger compoundedby those countries that were in the line to collapse, showing significant institutionalweaknesses.Among the states evaluated, there were several Latin-American countries that showedtheir disagreement related to the results provided by the previously listed document. Pertheir belief, the results were far from the actual reality faced by those countries. Thissituation become aggravated by the discomfort showed by political leaders of the region,since the failed states debate was pointing Latin-American countries. Primarily, thisdebate was centered in discussing the reality of African countries, and some othercountries outside that region that could exhibit terrorist cells. However, since it includedthe countries in Latin-America, the whole scenario changed as well as the reception ofthose results...