The Process of Creation and Implementation of the International Standards on Enforced Disappearance of Persons in Mexico, and its Review by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Case Rosendo Radilla

The Rosendo Radilla case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is the perfect framework to explain the processes of creation and development of international human rights law in cases of forced disappearance. Also, the case is ideal to explain the processes of implementation of international law at the domestic level in Mexico. The dynamic of the Inter-American System of Human Rights made possible the submission of that process of implementation to an international scrutiny in order to verify its validity. This situation entails a "return" in order to apply these standards of control at the internal level. The purpose of this article is to describe these processes and make a critic on them. Especially, it will be discussed the capacity of these processes to produce a deep normative change at the international and mainly at the national level.