This article aims to provide some theoretical, methodological and practical devices about the question of the state and power, from the governmentality perspective suggested by Foucault and their Latin American heritage. It is assumed that in Argentina’s and Salta’s present, multiple logics and practices of government that codify the state and its vicissitudes are clearly expressed in the government of poverty and in relational frames between rulers and ruled, woven into power and resistance. It is proposed to place this exercise around two expositive axes, beginning with an analysis of concepts and suggested issues by the governmentality perspective; on the other hand an approach to the government of poverty, illustrating this through two ...