CADE 1987 - Annual Executives Conference
CADE 1987 was the only business conference of the decade that devoted significant time to the issue of political violence, although in the end businessmen did not assume social responsibility for the issue and reduced it to a matter of police-military state efficiency.
The 1987 Annual Conference of Executives (CADE) devoted half of one of its four days to the issue of politically motivated violence, the only edition of CADE in the 1980s to address this topic in such depth. The event began with a lecture on violence by Fernando de Trazegnies, although the presentation was not followed by further commentary. Subsequently, Luis Rodríguez-Mariátegui Proaño, president of the National Society of Mining and Petroleum, presented the political-social project of the businessmen, focusing on criticisms against labor stability, 'union dictatorships' and the labor community, without addressing the issue of political violence. The event reflected the business position of considering subversive violence as a matter external to its social responsibility, reducing it to a question of police-military efficiency of the State.