Pinto, Antonio Costa2020-05-112020-05-112020Pinto, A. C. (2020). Atlantic Crossings. Intellectual-Politicians and the Diffusion of Corporatism in the Thirties Latin America. In Galimi, V., Gori, A. (Eds.), Intellectuals in the Latin Space during the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders, pp. 152-170. London and New York: Routledge. Taylor and Francis.978-1-138-48266-1http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43508In this chapter I deal with the main transnational agents of diffusion of corporatism in Latin America, giving particular salience to the Catholic Church, and the main intellectuals and intellectual-politicians that introduced and developed corporatist proposals. The concept of intellectual-politician will be used here to define those intellectuals who were participating in the institutional crafting of these regimes as formal or informal members of the decision-making elite (i.e. as advisers, deputies, cabinet members or party leaders). They provided space for interaction among politicians and the transnational intellectual arena, cementing ideological and political relations and modelsengCorporatismIntellectualsbook part