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This paper aims to analyze the diplomatic work of Antonio Carrillo Flores, Mexico's ambassador to the United States, between 1958 and 1964. Using Carrillo's personal archive, I show that his experience in the Mexican economic bureaucracy was fundamental in strengthening the commercial and financial relationship with that country. I also show that, with pragmatism, he used the Cold War logic to promote a Latin American economic agenda and look for alternatives to reduce dependence on the United States. I divide the work into two parts that correspond to the Republican administration of Eisenhower (1958-1960) and the Democratic administration of Kennedy (1961-1964), ending with the appointment of Carrillo as the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to address a theoretical reflection, empirically based, on the state of the strategic infrastructural capabilities of the Latin-American States in the XXI century. The specific problem to which this reflection is directed is the relative lag of those capacities for the mobilization or development of social and economic resources. Three basic aspects stand out: the capacity for governance, the capacity for innovation and the capacity to generate social capital. In these three categories, decisive in the modern world, the Latin American States share common characteristics that differentiate them from other regions of the world. Without delving into a definitive typology, the text suggests that the answers to the question of strategic lag require renewing the theoretical and methodological approaches, and advocates an interdisciplinary analytical strategy of political development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]