About This Book
This book of Professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, is a recollection of works on constitutional matters written during 2000 and 2001, when the democracy in Venezuela began to collapse under the rule of an authoritarian government. The texts were the result of lectures given in El Salvador (Challenges to XXI Century Constitutionalism), Dominican Republic (Option between Democracy ad Authoritarianism), San José, Costa Rica (Strengthening the National Institutional Protections of Human Rights), Lima and Antigua Guatemala (Democratization, Political Decentralization and State Reform), Guadalajara (Local Government, Political Decentralization and Democracy), San José (Judicial review and Participation), Austin, Texas (Venezuelan Constituent Power and the new 1999 Constitution), Mexico (Constituent Power and the Failed State Reform in Venezuela), Buenos Aires (Executive Acts in the Venezuelan Constitution and Judicial Review) Cartagena (Constitutional ways to end the Presidential Mandate in Venezuela), Lima (Judicial Review in the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution)
