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The article analyzes two Latin American afromusic festivals -one in Mexico and one in Colombia-, trying to find the strategies by which the multicultural project is expressed in these historical and culturally different scenarios. Using qualitative techniques, the ways through which the state institutions organizing the events and the people attending them build their experiences mediated by ethno-cultural difference and multicultural legislation that regulates it are characterized. The paper concludes that the Latin American multicultural project presents serious structural flaws in their actions and raises other ways of understanding the ethnic and racial otherness and its relationship to state institutions.

El artículo analiza dos festivales afromusicales latinoamericanos, uno en México y otro en Colombia, para encontrar las estrategias mediante las que el proyecto multicultural se expresa en estos escenarios histórica y culturalmente diferenciados. Mediante técnicas de investigación cualitativas, se caracterizan los procesos a través de los cuales los eventos son construidos por sus instituciones estatales organizadoras y por las personas asistentes a éstos, teniendo en cuenta la legislación multicultural que los regula. Concluye que el proyecto multicultural latinoamericano presenta falencias estructurales en su accionar y plantea otras formas de concebir la otredad étnico-racial y su relación con la institucionalidad estatal ; The article analyzes two Latin American afromusic festivals -one in Mexico and one in Colombia-, trying to find the strategies by which the multicultural project is expressed in these historical and culturally different scenarios. Using qualitative techniques, the ways through which the state institutions organizing the events and the people attending them build their experiences mediated by ethno-cultural difference and multicultural legislation that regulates it are characterized. The paper concludes that the Latin American multicultural project presents serious structural flaws in their actions and raises other ways of understanding the ethnic and racial otherness and its relationship to state institutions.