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Political discourse tends to deal with economic constraints on an incantatory mode, as if they resulted from 'market forces' or 'speculation'. This article tries to identify the economic agents and organizations that impose constraints on states. Far from actively plotting or speculating against the states most of these actors work in total symbiosis with them. Their operating logics are different depending on whether they are public or private. Private agents tend to focus on pursuing their economic interests while public organizations defend the institutional logics that define them. Adapted from the source document.

This paper deals with the internal dynamics of the Latin American States. Having identified the demographic changes - urbanization, rejuvenating process, widespread education — the author introduces the social changes which have caused the spreading to the masses, to social segmentation and individualization. This is followed by a study of the ideologies which relate the social orientations of the individuals or segmented groups with the overall representations which value authoritarianism, populism, nationalism and state socialism. The analysis of authoritarian ideologies, of social individualism, and of the fragmentized political rivalries validates the internal hypothesis according to which the state actors of Latin America operate with considerable autonomy on the international scène as compared to the other actors.