El articulo pretende invesigar, ante un devenir de la modernidad que pareciera abrir espacio a distintas e incluso inconmensurables concepciones de democracia, que ha hecho posible que America Latina se formule un proyecto determinado de democracia como deseable. Mas concretamente, se busca aportar elementos para responder la siguiente cuestion: ?Cual es el trasfondo en el que se manifiesta como problematica vital el deseo de construir una democracia mas justa y participativa en America Latina? Para ello, el articulo pasa sucinta revista a una relacion posible entre el debate sobre la democracia en las sociedades industrializadas de Occidente y el proyecto autenticamente democratico que, segun el autor, pareciera estarse gestando en las raices mismas del pueblo latinoamericano; todo a partir de una perspectiva fundamentada en una concepcion dinamica, historica, de los fenomenos sociales. Abstract This article attempts to look at whatis that has made possible and desirable the formulation of a determinate project of democracy for Latin America, given a modernity that seems to opens 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 the desire to construct a more fair and participative democracy in Latin America 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 from the perspective grounded on a dynamic and historical conception of social phenomena.