We have much government and some state, says the author, in one of his thesis.
These governments appropriate the legality and begin to compromise their legitimacy. Worse, they face electoral democracy with institutional republic. There they begin to take shape dilemmas in the region.

Continued reflection opened in its Rethinking Latin America (Gedisa 2004), where he had established the conditions and effects of the depletion model import substitution industrialization (M / ISI), predominantly during the twentieth century in Latin America. As after the Industrial Revolution and the division of labor result, the region established its own particularities and profiles in social organization and, above all, in its ideological and academic treatment.

The analytical core is organized around the relational theory of the state, with four strategic dimensions: State, nation, civil society and markets, operating as four fields of analysis, each made according to a specific logic and the power struggle in each field, as Bourdieu says. Francisco Delich goes beyond the concept: its main thesis advances towards the construction of meaning of social actions from their intersection.

The historical subject of the twentieth century has been moved, obscured, but not dead either the construction of history, not its actors. Are these, becoming invisible societies, those who challenge the development of a new, still vague and undefined Latin American model, whose first attributes appear in these pages.