This article examines the implications that social scientists in Latin America could inherit from American and European interpretations of cultural industries to explain the problems that are manifested in the cultural fields of Latin American countries. Through analysis of contributions of Marxist interpreters of cultural industries, reflects on the use of such interpretations to explain Latin American conditions of production and consumption of cultural goods in the era of global capitalism. This text shows that Latin America, during the era of global capitalism, the occupants of fields of cultural production venture production of cultural goods under production conditions that are associated with the multicultural character of Latin American states, and, therefore, they are different from those that take into account the European and American social scientists exhibiting reflections on the conditions of cultural production in times of capitalism. In Latin American nations social problems related to the production and consumption of cultural goods depend on unique features like the multicultural character of Latin American nations, conflicts between modernization and tradition or national public policies.