The gremialista movement would ultimately provide an essential recruitment base for the pro-coup coalition. Established by Sergio Guzmán, a law professor at the CU and later one of the intellectual leaders of the military regime, his ideological project was based on corporatist ideas grounded in ultraconservative Catholicism. The gremialists sought to replace party politics with an authoritarian corporatist regime. Business interest groups and professional organizations (gremios) were assigned key roles in a system of functional representation that was to control and moderate the discretionary political power of the state (Teichman 2001, 25; Valdivia and de Zárate 2003, chapter 5).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1555