Division between public and private interests --- Probably one of the main challenges of the States that appointed those initial commercial attaches was to establish a difference between public and private interests. As a businessman, those attaches had personal interests in promoting commerce that indirectly benefited the State. But, as public servers, the main objective shouldn't be the promotion of personal business but fostering national interests. During the twentieth century, the division of public and private was clearer.

Source author: Juan Carlos Pomareda jpomareda@onuperu.org