%0 Journal Article %T Las tareas contempor¨¢neas de las fuerzas armadas latinoamericanas y la necesaria revisi¨®n de la teor¨ªa de la consolidaci¨®n democr¨¢tica =The missions of contemporary Latin American Armed Forces and the necessary revision of the theory about democratic consolidation %A Dub¨¦ %A S¨¦bastien %A Garc¨ªa Pinz¨®n %A Viviana %J Estudos Ibero Americanos %D 2012 %I Editora da Pontif¨ªcia Universidade Cat¨®lica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS) %X Embora at¨¦ o final do s¨¦culo XX, interven es militares e golpes de Estado tenham sido uma constante na pol¨ªtica latino-americana, nas ¨²ltimas d¨¦cadas a regi o passou por um processo de consolida o democr¨¢tica sem precedentes. Neste trabalho, analisamos as discrepancias existentes entre o avan o hist¨®rico da democracia na Am¨¦rica Latina e as condi es que a literatura predominante algumas d¨¦cadas atr¨¢s identificava como necess¨¢rias para alcan ar esse quadro. A democracia como sistema pol¨ªtico se consolidou na regi o sem que se tenham cumprido as condi es consideradas necess¨¢rias a respeito das rela es civil-militares. A amea a autorit¨¢ria n o diminuiu por uma mudan a dr¨¢stica de comportamento dentro das For as Armadas - o elemento-chave da teoria da consolida o democr¨¢tica. Foi a redu o dr¨¢stica do poder e da influ¨ºncia da direita pol¨ªtica e civil com tend¨ºncias autorit¨¢rias que permitiu a estabilidade alcan ada. Until the late twentieth century, military intervention and coups in Latin American politics had been constant. But over the last decades the region has undergone a process of unprecedented democratic consolidation. In this paper, we examine the discrepancies between the historic progress of democracy in Latin America and the conditions that prevailing literature identified as necessary to achieve it one or two decades ago. Democracy as a political system has been consolidated in the region without having fulfilled the conditions regarding civil-military relations. The authoritarian threat has not diminished by a drastic change of behavior within the armed forces - the key element of the theory of democratic consolidation-. It was the drastic reduction in power and influence of civil political right elites and the authoritarian tendencies what allows the consolidation achieved. %K AM¨¦RICA LATINA - HIST¨®RIA POL¨ªTICA %K POL¨ªTICA %K MILITARES - ASPECTOS POL¨ªTICOS %U http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/11590/8014