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BURIANO CASTRO, Ana  e  DUTRENIT BIELOUS, Silvia. A doscientos años, cuentas estatales por saldar ante la  Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2010, n.24, pp.73-90. ISSN 1852-1568.

The Latin American States were born during the enlightened modernity, with its horizontal bodies of equals and its constitutional orders which incorporate into the texts the protection of guarantees at the  level of civil rights. Throughout two centuries, and maintaining extensive strips of exclusion, the constitutions advanced towards the incorporation of rights (social and economic and even the recognition of multicultural and multiethnic diversity). Despite this evolution, and two hundred years since that promising beginning, some States stand today before the inter-American Court, who judges them for violating the basic source on the matter: The American Convention on Human Rights, as well as protocols and conventions which constitute the network of instruments that provide protection and regulation of Human Rights. This paper centers its analysis in two plights against Mexico and Uruguay before the Inter- American Human Rights Court. These correspond to two countries with significant differences in their historic conformation, transgression environments, legal frameworks and transitional trajectories. But beyond these diversities they both share difficulties in complying with the rules of international law regarding Human Rights; which are legally, ethically and politically binding in a world where «the universality, interdependency, indivisibility and interrelatedness of rights» is an established norm

Palavras-chave : Inter-American Human Rights Court; Gelman; Mexico; Radilla; Uruguay.