The region needs to reach to a consensus on the steps to follow for facing inequality and poverty. Through this paper, we came to the conclusion that the challenge of the representatives in Latin America is to lead governance. In other words, to integrate the State, the market and the society in a democratic agenda which promotes surmounting inequality and poverty through the access to the citizen rights and warranties to them. To start, we make questions like: What are the main problems for consolidating democracy in Latin America?, Is there an association between the lack of citizen rights and democratic consolidation?, Do we need to elect representatives convinced about the influence of the citizenship development in the possibilities of the democratic consolidation and disposed to promote the civil and social citizenship, the decrease of poverty and inequality? We have elaborated a map of the democratic consolidation in Latin America according to some indicators; and we have measured the levels of effective citizenship, that is, civil citizenship, political citizenship, social citizenship, poverty, inequality, adding the comparison with the rate of human development and poliarchy, for some countries from the region. We have come across that there is an association among the levels of the development of citizenship and the degrees of democratic consolidation.
