Although since the advent of modernity a speech has been proclaimed with a claim to universality around human dignity that advocates for a humanity in complete harmony with the values of freedom, equality and fraternity, the truth of the matter is that the status of citizen , in legal and political terms it has not yet been able to exceed the limits of national states. In this sense, this essay aims to discuss the real situation of the category's universal citizenship, human rights and globalization, in the heat of the geopolitical conflict that has generated in Latin America the harassment of socialism of the 21st century. In the methodological the investigation uses the documentary observation and dialectical hermeneutics. It is concluded that, if globalization is reduced to the internationalization of capitals and selective human and technological resources, for the benefit of corporate elites only and does not transcend a globalization of social welfare and the dignification of life, a process in which citizenship universal would be the logical consequence, so it is a partial globalization that very little can contribute to the open societies of the 21st century