La justicia constitucional contra los bolcheviques: la Corte Suprema de Justicia Conservadora y la represión al movimiento obrero, 1926-1930
The nascent industrialization of Colombia with the strengthening of the workers' movement made social conflict grow during the last Government of Conservative Hegemony (1926-1930). At the same time that strikes broke out in different parts of the country, the influence of the Russian and Mexica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6536547 |
| Source: | Historia constitucional: Revista Electrónica de Historia Constitucional, ISSN 1576-4729, Nº. 19, 2018, pags. 505-532 |
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The nascent industrialization of Colombia with the strengthening of the workers' movement made social conflict grow during the last Government of Conservative Hegemony (1926-1930). At the same time that strikes broke out in different parts of the country, the influence of the Russian and Mexican revolutions made the Government to think that it was necessary to stop the "communist threat" and social protest. The Conservative Administration faced the
"social question" with repression: the response to the workers' movement, which demanded the recognition of their labor rights, was the use of security forces. This article examines the role played by the Supreme Court, composed mostly of Conservative Justices, who legally supported this repression and the containment of the "revolutionary threat".The article first provides an overview of the institutional and political context in the first two decades of the twentieth century in Colombia. Then, it reviews the role of the Conservative Supreme Court on the judicial review of two legal tools that the Executive approved to repress social protest: (i) decree 707 of 1927 or of High Police, which was mostly declared constitutional, And (ii) the measures of state of siege dictated to repress the "Massacre of the Banana Region" of 1928, that the Court evaluated almost three years later, when the decree had been derogated. In this way, this article highlights how the Tribunal aligned itself with the other two branches of public power, also conservative, to legally support repression and stops the "revolutionary threat". |
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