Cambó in Argentina

Thanks to the study of numerous confidential correspondence and classifies reports, Borja de Riquer reconstructs the hectic history of the company Compañía Hispano-Americana de Electricidad (CHADE), the main Spanish investment abroad; a company that obtained exceptional benefits thanks to the corruption of politicians, officials and journalists and that obtained preferential treatment even of the Argentinean presidents Justo, Alvear, Perón and Frondizi.

Thus, this essay traces the documentary tracks of its life in Argentina, with results certainly surprising for its irrefutability. Political and economic corruption, notebooks for payments, favors and settlements, among others, this book summarizes the history of the electric business in Argentina, controlled by Cambó and his men, and the meticulous and exhaustive accounting of the company on a small and large scale.