The oligarchic-yet-transnationalized, flex-crop agribusinesses have become dominant over traditional landed upper classes and territorial political elites. Though mighty large estate owners and ranchers still remain, many of them have developed contract-farming agreements with the flex-crop agribusinesses and others have sold or leased their land to them. These deals on good terms, however, should not lead us to conclude that changing dominance within the often competing-for-resources classes of capital is absolutely free of conflicts and contradictions. While clashing interests among the classes of capital are seldom overt in national politics, they can create a lot of tension in specific, localized settings. For instance, it was not unusual to hear ranchers complaining about the negative impacts of expanding flex-crop plantations over watersheds’ availability, contaminated water sources to water their cattle because of the heavy use of agro-chemicals in the plantations and especially, about the agribusinesses owners’ annoying distant rule, normally exercised through business ‘field managers’.