Los contratiempos de la democracia procedimental en México

from the basic concepts of the called "procedural democracy", this work is a revision of the problems that appeared in mexico between the years 2003 and 2006, previous to the presidential elections. the set of these problems related to a disrepute campaign towards the candidate of the main party of the left, allows demonstrating some of the most important challenges of the rising mexican democratic institutionalism. as the central element in the resolution of this period, the "popular protest" played an important role in the change of federal official policy, becoming later the main impulse of the candidacy of the left party. these events and their importance in the political scene essentially allows us to think about the conditions of the existing kind of democracy in mexico and latin america, to light of the processes of democratization and neoliberalism through out the continent.