Latin America as a Region for International Legal Relocation: Extradition Security as a Criterion for the Choice of Jurisdiction

This Research Note inaugurates the Buenos Aires Desk publication line of ARGA Observatory, devoted to the comparative analysis of international legal relocation. The study examines Latin America as a region for legal relocation and focuses on extradition security as a key criterion for choosing a jurisdiction. It proposes a three-axis analytical framework for assessing jurisdictions: the accessibility of legal status, the resilience of that status to external pressure, and institutional predictability. The framework is applied to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, selected as jurisdictions with contrasting extradition profiles. Argentina is treated as the reference jurisdiction, combining a stable extradition core with recent reforms of migration and asylum regimes. Brazil represents the model of an absolute constitutional bar on the extradition of nationals; Chile illustrates the divergence between access to status and strength of judicial protection; Mexico demonstrates the gap that may arise between formal legal norms and their practical implementation. The principal finding of the study is that the accessibility of relocation and the resilience of legal status under external pressure are independent variables. The decisive factor for extradition security is not merely the formal existence of protective norms, but the degree and timing of judicial review within the extradition procedure, together with the quality of institutional implementation. The publication opens the Buenos Aires Desk line of ARGA Observatory research notes on international legal relocation, extradition security, mechanisms of international legal protection and the corporate dimension of relocation.