Some thoughts about the conditions of the possibility of democracy in Latinamerica

Abstract

This article attempts to look at what is that has made possible and desirable the formulation of a determinate project of democracy for Latin America, given modernity that seems to open space for difference and even incommensurable conceptions of democracy. Specifically, the author attempts to supply the elements to answer the following question: What is the background on which they desire to construct a more fair and participative democracy in Latin America that is manifested as problematic? For this purpose, the article briefly reviews a possible relation between the debate over democracy in Western industrialized societies and the authentically democratic projects that, according to the author, appears to be in the making at the roots of the Latin American people. All this is from the perspective is grounded on a dynamic and historical conception of social phenomena.