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Alberto Ricardo Dalla Via
El presente artículo desarrolla los criterios elaborados en las sentencias y opiniones consultivas de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y en los informes de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, respecto de la protección de los derechos políticos tal como se encuentran contemplados en la Convención Americana de Derechos Humanos.
Ha resaltado el pnud en su informe sobre �La democracia en América Latina� (2004) que Asistimos a una ampliación en el alcance de los derechos políticos, por un lado para integrar otros derechos en el paraguas de un derecho más general y medular a la democracia: el derecho a la participación política y por el otro, la ampliación ciudadana producto de los procesos de integración supranacionales.
En este contexto, en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, los precedentes de la Corte Interamericana, principalmente los casos Yatama vs. Nicaragua del año 2005 y Castañeda Gutman vs. Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 2008, profundizan los desarrollos jurídicos del sistema en materia de derechos políticos.
The present article develops the criteria prepared in the judgments and advisory opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, with regard to the protection of the political rights as they are contemplated in the American Convention of Human Rights.
The pnud has highlighted in his report on �The democracy in Latin America� (2004) that �[...] the democracy does not come down to the electoral act but it needs from efficiency, transparence and equity in the public institutions, as well as of a culture that should accept the legitimacy of the political opposition and recognizes, and abigue for, the rights of all�. Since �the democracy exceeds to a method to choose those who govern, it is also a way of constructing, of guaranteeing and of expanding the freedom, the justice and the progress, organizing the tensions and the conflicts that generate the struggles of power�. We are present at an enlargement in the scope of the political rights, on the one hand to integrate other rights in the most general aspect of a right and fundamental to the democracy: the right to the political participation and on the other side, the civil enlargement product of the supranational processes of integration.
In this context, in the Inter-American System of Human rights, the precedents of the Inter-American Court, principally the cases Yatama vs. Nicaragua of the year 2005 and Castañeda Gutman vs. The Mexican United States of the year 2008, deepen the juridical developments of the system on the subject of political rights.
