The following article aims to present the results of the research work developed in 2018 with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, which sought to describe and explain that young people from two public institutions in the town of Suba in Bogotá-Colombia are represented by political participation, democracy and citizenship, typifying the way in which they participate and exercise their citizenship and democratic rights. Studies of this type are of great importance, since it is from the conceptions of the students and their political and democratic behavior that we can, as teachers and researchers, make proposals for the formation of critical citizenships.