The articles included in this issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (RMPE) aim to identify the complex relationships between social movements, political parties, elections, governmental actions, the performance of legislatures and democratic governance and processes of co-evolution. In particular, they analyse the relations between social movements, political parties, protests and elections in Latin America, and include specific analyses of the political processes in Bolivia, Chile and Honduras, as well as including other analyses of Brazil, Colombia, and the Chicanx struggle in the party and electoral environment of the United States (of pop­ulations with Latin American roots). We hope that reading them will help to understand the political processes in the region and their significance from the standpoint of democracy.