(Universidad Icesi, 2019-07-01) La Spina, Encarnación
Diplomatic asylum is a form of international protection whose legal nature has
been widely debated. On the one hand, because it is a customary practice with a
heterogeneous conventional recognition in the inter-American system and, on the
other hand, it has a difficult fit in the common European asylum system. Despite its
historical reminiscences, in both geographical latitudes, diplomatic asylum could
become a window of opportunity in the face of European fissures of international
protection mechanisms in cases of humanitarian emergency. Based on this premise, this
article attempts to analyse the peculiarities and differences between diplomatic asylum
and other falsely related figures, and thus critically explore the opportunities and limits
that it would represent in the common European asylum system itself.
