In favor of public policies of democratic memory: Reflections built on the Brazilian democratic reality and the draft Law of Democratic Memory in Spain

Abstract

The fragile democracy of Latin American countries is a historical construction, perhaps because, even if homogeneously, the region has suffered from the brutality of dictatorships and raised democratic values after this holocaust, democratic memory policies are far from to create breath in institutions and in society as a whole to survive the adventures of breaking the institutional order.
This Editorial is a comparative essay that proposes to reflect on how the bases of a democratic memory policy and its corresponding law could be constituted, having in the referential horizon the draft Democratic Memory Law of the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory of Spain.