“…However, it is likely that the content of these policies or the extent to which they result from elite pressure, vary. In the following paragraphs, drawing on Bull and Aguilar-Støen (2019), Cárdenas, Robles Rivera and Martínez-Vallejo (2020), Robles Rivera (2014), Sánchez-Ancochea and Puig (2013 and Segovia (2005), we explore elite reactions during COVID-19, focusing on Central America, a region in which the elites have had recognized influence (see table 3). An early comparison of elite group's responses to policies to address the pandemic suggests a high correlation between the responses and their access to government as well as ethnicity (Pérez-Sáinz, 2016;Sánchez-Ancochea and Martínez-Franzoni, 2020).…”