IN ARGENTINA THE UPPER CLASS DOMINATED RURAL LAND OWNERSHIP

Unlike English Colonial expansion to what now is called the Commonwealth Countries, which were mainly colonised by the middle and lower classes, Argentina was dominated by upper-class immigration for farming. Towards the end of the 18th century, the ruling class consolidated its position, commonly called “Argentines oligarchy”. It is a group of families who own massive amounts of land, dedicated, especially, to livestock production, in the humid Pampa of Buenos Aires, as well as financiers and large…