The purpose of this study is, on the one hand, to provide a description of regional efforts in transitional justice within MERCOSUR by July 2016, with an emphasis on the Meeting of High Authorities on Human Rights and Chancelleries (RAADH) and the Institute of Public Policies on Human Rights (IPPDH), without however proposing to evaluate the impact of these actions and, on the other hand, to carry out an analysis on the meaning and the perspectives of a transnational cut in transitional justice processes. The * Este artigo é fruto de projeto de pesquisa apoiado pelo CNPq, tendo sido contemplado na Chamada CNPq/MCTI N° 25/2015 Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Sociais Aplicadas.