The right to the truth in the jurisprudence of the Inter-american Court of Human Rights about forced disappearences

This article attempts to define the main characteristic notes of the so-called «human right» to the truth, which has been jurisprudentially constructed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights through its rulings on cases of forced disappearances that occurred in post-conflict contexts. In this way, based on the review and analysis of twenty-seven rulings of the aforementioned international court, in which the Inter-American Court provides a fragmented vision of the right to the truth, we will seek to build a systematic image of it. Thus, an attempt will be made to demonstrate the impact of the «right to the truth» on the judicial systems and national legal systems of Ibero-American countries, especially in Peru and Guatemala. Finally, from these cases it will be inferred that, in the configuration of this aforementioned right, the Inter-American Court has been influenced, in turn, by the parameters of transitional justice that goes beyond the traditional punitive vision of criminal justice, through of the use of judicial and parajudicial mechanisms based on a vision centered on the ideas of victim and suffering.