Bulletin #1 Power and democracy: the influence of economic elites

CLACSO Working Group on Economic Elites, the State and Inequality
Latin America from Above Newsletter
Year 1 – Issue #1 Power and democracy: the influence of economic elites
November 2024

CONTENTS

Introduction

ARTICLES
1. Argentine businessmen (again) in search of a tailor-made democracy
Gabriel Vommaro
2. To Odebrecht in the Lava Jato Operation. Economic elite, corruption and democracy in Brazil
Paulo Roberto Neves Costa, Silvana Zulmira Ferreira and Marta Pontes de Campos
3. Peru: a captured democracy
Marina Mendoza
4. Capitalism and dictatorship. Elites in Nicaragua
Francisco Robles Rivera and Alheli Vanessa Bermudez Laynes

MISCELLANEOUS
5. Cloud Elites
6. Books and literature
7. Current situation on the internet. Donald Trump's victory opened the discussion: are the elites betraying democracy?