La libertad de expresión frente al derecho al honor e intimidad de los funcionarios públicos.

Abstract

The present paper analyzes an exciting topic for constitutional law: the use of the weighting technique as a tool to solve a dispute oftwo rights of the same hierarchy. The rights at issue are as follows: freedom of expression versus the right to honor and privacy. All these rights are enshrined in various international treaties signed by several South American countries. Therefore, to obtain a response that serves to unify criteria regarding the subject, the work will analyze the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).