Global Process, Local Meanings: The Argentine Local Supporters to the Structural Reforms Gastón J. Beltrán During the 1980 decade Argentina was affected by a severe economic and institutional crisis. After two episodes of hyperinflation, the government, with the support of most local businesses and a few neoliberal intellectuals began a process of deep structural reforms. This paper analyzes how and why the support for those reforms evolved internally, watching at the way in which global dynamics and local configurations intersect. The paper then focuses on the way the local powers – mainly state, local business and local intellectuals –interpreted and incorporated neoliberalism during the 1980s and how and why they demanded their implementation.