Abstract

MALDONADO SIERRA, Guillermo Alfonso. Constitutional speeches and social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rev. latinoam. derecho soc [online]. 2021, n.32, pp.3-21.  Epub Nov 22, 2021. ISSN 2448-7899.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24487899e.2021.32.15307.

The discourse of rights has occupied a preponderant historical space in the constitutionalism of Latin America and the Caribbean (ALC), driven by the arrival of social constitutionalism in the region in the early twentieth century, the constitutionalization of law from the decade of the eighty, and the new Latin American constitutionalisms of the present century.

The right to social security has been part of this dynamic, to the extent that it has a long history in its constitutional recognition in the countries of the region, reflected in the creation of social security systems and subsequent emergence of social protection systems, all of which contrasts with the persistent situation of poverty, inequality and low coverage of social security contributory systems in the Economically Active Population (PEA) of LAC, and which also immerses it in a great paradox: the greater realization of this right The lower the interest of constitutionally consecrating it, while the less effective enjoyment thereof, the greater the constitutional recognition it receives, an aspect that could be classified as an expression of the political and normative populism prevailing in several countries of the region.

Keywords : Constitutionalization; Latin America and the Caribbean; populism; social protection; social security.

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