O âmbito informativo da inteligência doméstica na América Latina

The purpose of this paper is to address domestic intelligence laws in force in Latin America from a comparative perspective. Such laws are compared with those in force in countries exhibiting significant institutional advancement in which the intelligence activity features limits and controls. The comparative analysis shows the all-embracing scope characteristic of domestic intelligence in Latin America versus that of the countries used as comparison, and that this is the result of both the legislative allocation of conceptually wide-ranging and even vague functions and, in some cases, the con...