Vol. 13 No. 13 (2019): ReDeA Nª 13 Primavera

We present the spring edition of 2019, welcoming our readers to the thirteenth issue of ReDeA, with the renewed desire to share with you some social legal events, in our opinion important, that have occurred in the last three months in Argentina, the region, and in our beloved Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the National University of La Plata.

Among the many critical situations that fleetingly crossed the region in recent times, that of Bolivia is one of the ones that most concerns us, both because of the violation of democracy and human rights that it causes and because of the painful reminiscence of the darkest stages of our Latin American history.

Likewise, we cannot fail to mention that on 27 October last, the general elections were held in our country with complete normality. From the results of the same ones, a change of political sign will take place both in the national authorities and in those of the Province of Buenos Aires. In these elections, the presidential formula of the "Frente de Todos" (Alberto Fernandez-Cristina Fernandez) won a large victory over the ruling party's "Juntos por el Cambio" (Mauricio Macri-Miguel Angel Pichetto).

In the province of Buenos Aires, the candidate of the "Frente de Todos", Axel Kicillof, was elected Governor, accompanied by Verónica Magario as Vice Governor, with the candidate - and outgoing Governor - María Eugenia Vidal in second place. We celebrate such a democratic event, the periodicity of the elective offices and the change of institutional responsibilities implies a functioning and vital republic. From this publication we wish the greatest success to those who will have the difficult task of putting the State back on its feet. We also want to emphasize that last November 22nd was the 70th anniversary of the signing and promulgation of Decree 29337 that established free university education in our country.

Today, on the seventieth anniversary of that decision, we want to rescue it and place it in the historic site it deserves. Let us think that, in spite of the authoritarian governments and the dictatorships that devastated our Republic during these seventy years, no one could reverse it or leave it without effect because it is the heritage of all the Argentine people.

With regard to our publication, we would like to communicate that we are modifying the structure of our sections in order to incorporate a greater number of articles with peer review (scientific) and limiting those sections that do not meet these requirements. We would like to highlight the proposal for a special section on Legal Pluralism, Peoples and States, for the magazine Derechos en Acción (ReDeA), presented by Professor Dino Di Nella and his team, at the request of the Memories, Peoples and States Programme, which is part of the Secretariat of Institutional Relations and based at the Centre for Research in Critical Law, of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the National University of La Plata.

We are also very pleased to announce to the readers and authors of ReDeA that we continue to expand our work team, welcoming Carolina Cabado, Juan Cruz Galeano, Abril Di Fonzo and Bernardo Vázquez. We also incorporated the following professors and academics into the Editorial Board: Pablo Gres (Universidad de Chile), Mauro Benente, Universidad Nacional de José C. Paz, Argentina; Miguel Revenga Sánchez (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain), Gisele Ricobom, Universidad Federal de la Integración Latinoamericana (Brazil); Grethel Arias Gayoso (Universidad de Oriente, Cuba); Alfonso Celotto (Universitá Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) and Ana Laura Piñeiro Jardim (Universidad de la República, Uruguay).