摘要:Latin American countries have been trying to integrate the State, national capital and the different sectors of society with a view to building an economic base responding to the idea of endogenous development. One of the objectives is to favor the competitivity of the small firms and tus favor economic and social welfare, create employment and eliminate poverty. This article analyzes the productive chains as a development strategy and the insertion of the small firms within them, taking into account the other powerful economic actors who participate. The author concludes that they continue to be dependent on the larger firms or the State with which they maintain an unstable relationship, simply surviving as a subordinate element in the market.