La desaparición forzada como hecho ilícito permanente en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos

The aim of this paper is to explain the permanent nature of enforced disappearance as internationally wrongful act and the impact of this feature on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights temporal jurisdiction or ratione temporis. To this end, it will defend that enforced disappearance is a permanent internationally wrongful act and, on the basis of this defense, it will critically analyze the evolving jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court on temporal jurisdiction over such illicit.