ABSTRACT
The Latin American region has always been subject to flows of migrants, often people forced to leave their country of origin or nationality due to civil wars, rebellions, guerrilla, and violence by organised crime. Faced with this situation, Latin American States, especially within the Organization of American States and under the control of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, have developed a typical, very progressive regional regime for asylum and for the international protection of forced migrants. This regime is mainly centred on a broad conception of asylum, the recognition of the existence of a right to asylum, and the integration of refugee law, human rights law and humanitarian law. It can offer interesting insights for the fertilisation of other international protection regimes despite the fact that, from a practical point of view, it is still confronted with many difficulties of implementation on the part of States, which have also become evident most recently with the large flow of Venezuelans who have fled their country, especially since 2019.
