ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the formation of Chihuahua's entrepreneurial form of local development in the process of decentralization. It analyses how and why local firms' business connections, subcontracting and/or joint-ventures with foreign firms gave them relative strength vis-à-vis the other social classes. The case of Chihuahua also shows that via the decentralized development, internationalized local capital groups and their foreign partners orchestrated the local development plans directly through their own organizations and indirectly through the civil society that they organized and the political parties that they captured. Local political economy of Chihuahua has been shaped by its geographical location and underground resources. The development programs crafted in the meetings marginalized in the dominated masses of the policy-making processes. The foreign agents with interests in the local economy joined with the domestic bourgeoisie and became involved in the planning of the local development programs.
