Politics

  **// Democracy and Justice in Latin America //** was session number one of a four session series to introduce Latin American themes and help teachers integrate area studies across the curriculum. The presentation by Iran Rodriguez provided a brief historical overview of democracy in Latin America and discussed recent challenges to justice in the region.

Date: April 19, 2011   Iran Rodrigues is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Unversity of Florida specializing in Comparative Politics, Political Methodology and International Relations. His dissertation focuses on Judicial effectiveness and institutional change in Brazil. The objective of the research is to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between Judicial and Executive branches in new democracies through the study of compliance to court decisions by federal administrative agencies in Brazil.
 * About the Presenter **

[|Iran Rodrigues Home Page]

**Live recording of the //Democracy and Justice in Latin America// session.**

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** Recommended Films/Documentaries **

[|Presumed Guilty – Mexico (2008)]

[|Justica – Brazil (2004)]

[|Ending the Silence - Guatemala]

[|Battle of Chile (1998)]

[|The debt of dictators (2005)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Enemies of war - El Salvador (2001)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|In the name of the people – El Salvador (1984)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Front Line – El Salvador (1983)] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">(you need to subscribe to the list in order to download the movie)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Carandiru – Brazil (2003)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Judge and the General (2008)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Elite Squad (2007), Elite Squad II (2010)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Motorcycle Diaries (2004)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The Big Sellout (2006)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|South of the Border ( 2009)]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Articles:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Drug wars – Central America - The tormented isthmus]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Central America's woes - The drug war hits Central America]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Links**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Bolsa Familia]