From the analysis of specialized literature, a close link between literature, history and power in Latin America can be identified. This circumstance expresses the political and historical reality of the continent. This research examines the conception of power in Tongolele no sabía bailar (2021), by the writer Sergio Ramírez. To this end, the novel is contextualized within the Latin American tradition of political literature. The life and work of the author is studied, as well as the censorship of the book in Nicaragua. Derived from the hermeneutic analysis, the description of a primary power based on violence, coercion and force is noticed. The work highlights the difficult path of democracies in the continent in the face of men clinging to power and authoritarian forms of command.

In academic circles, George Orwell’s works have been studied from various disciplines for the manner in which they reflect the dangers of totalitarian societies and the mechanisms of control and surveillance. However, the richness of his literature also has an impact on the legal world. This article aims to unravel the conception of law in Animal Farm (1945). After a hermeneutic study, law is identified as an instrument of power used for the benefit of the few. The work generates a rupture in the way of conceiving law as a set of rules whose ends are the common good and justice, thus discovering the relationship of law with the will of those who hold power.

This paper seeks to identify the conception of power in La fiesta del Chivo. The phenomenon of power from the literary subgenres of the region, its particularities and its problems are analyzed in this essay. After a process of interpretation and contextualization of the work, it is identified that the fundamental elements of the primary conception of power are violence, conflict, and fear. Despite the author’s little problematization of this topic, fear of the loss of the «order» imposed by the dictatorial figures highlights the relationship of complicity between the dictator, those close to him, and the governed. With this approach, the study reveals the complexity of the phenomena of power in the region and allows an approach to law as an instrument of legitimization of dictatorships.

This paper seeks to identify the conception of power in La fiesta del Chivo. The phenomenon of power from the literary subgenres of the region, its particularities and its problems are analyzed in this essay. After a process of interpretation and contextualization of the work, it is identified that the fundamental elements of the primary conception of power are violence, conflict, and fear. Despite the author’s little problematization of this topic, fear of the loss of the «order» imposed by the dictatorial figures highlights the relationship of complicity between the dictator, those close to him, and the governed. With this approach, the study reveals the complexity of the phenomena of power in the region and allows an approach to law as an instrument of legitimization of dictatorships.