VEGA GONZÁLEZ Y OTROS C. CHILE: COSA JUZGADA E IMPLEMENTACIÓN CONVENCIONAL.1326

This article is aimed at studying national and international res judicata, and the conventional implementation of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (lACtHR) judgments, by the condemned state. To this end, we analyse two of the obligations ordered by this international court, in the Vega González and others v. Chile case: the revision with control of conventionality of internal final judgments, on the one side; and the duty to adapt national law to the lACtHR’s decision and to implement it applying such control, until the correspondent legal reform is enacted, on the other. Hence, we examine: how has Chile reacted to the revision of internal judgments, ordered by the lACtHR in other cases in which that state has appeared before it; other available options for states condemned by the lACtHR in similar cases; and the application of conventionality control to the reparations ordered by this international court in the Vega González and others v. Chile case, exploring the distinction between international res judicata and control of conventionality made by the lACtHR in its case-law.