The owners of Latin America: the networks linking major transnational business owners

Julián Cárdenas, profesor, Departamento de Sociología y Antropología Social, Universitat de València, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0584-5603

Francisco Robles-Rivera, investigador, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, y profesor en la Escuela de Comunicación,Universidad de Costa Rica, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0117-3515

Diego Martínez-Vallejo, profesor asociado, Escuela de Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8598-6013.

An analysis of who owns large companies and how they are organised is overdue in the study of Latin American elites, especially at transnational level. It is a limitation that has hampered debates on the emergence of transnational business elites in the region. This paper identifies the owners of the largest companies in Latin America and analyses the networks they form. The results reveal the formation of an interlocking ownership network between a small number of transnational owners, most of whom are financial corporations in the United States and Europe. These findings allow us to discuss regional integration and the dominance of economic models imported from those territories.

Keywords: economic elites, companies, interlocking ownership, Latin America, network analysis, regional integration 

How to cite this article: Cárdenas, Julián; Robles-Rivera, Francisco y Martínez-Vallejo, Diego. «Los dueños de América Latina: las redes entre los grandes propietarios transnacionales». Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 126 (diciembre de 2020), p. 17-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2020.126.3.17

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