Latin America in the region: "liquid society", judicial decision and politics. An acute conflict, just dissimulated

Abstract

what Zygmunt Bauman called "liquid modernity", in general terms, fits the market logic driven by globalization and this is associated with the current phase of the so-called "postmodernity", despite how anachronistic this denomination can be today. It turns out to be this, a scenario of profound economic, social, political and cultural changes in general, which throws us into an uncertain future. Law, as a constitutive discursive social practice, is shaken by the overwhelming mobilization that these changes provoke. Within the constitutive elements of this praxis, is the "judicial decision", privileged discursive species of the same, for being in charge of public officials - judges - who play a particularly connoted role. The same by the way, is not undamaged either. Moreover, its relationship with the political, always conflicting and disguised, today takes a notorious pre-eminence. Of this and other surrounding issues, with a view towards Latin America in the Region, this work is about.