This chapter proposes a theoretical framework for understanding public policy processes in Latin America from a cultural and interpretive perspective rooted in the region’s historical specificity. It argues that public policies are socio-cultural artifacts shaped by symbolic forms and value systems, and that in Latin America these processes are influenced by a distinct baroque ethos—a mode of being characterized by hybridity, contradiction, and the coexistence of tradition and modernity. Drawing on the works of Bolívar Echeverría, Severo Sarduy, and Hartmut Rosa, the chapter articulates how this baroque ethos informs both the practices of policy actors and the rhetorical and institutional forms of public action. It contrasts this approach with mainstream rationalist and neo-institutionalist theories, highlighting the limits of their applicability to Latin American contexts. Ultimately, it outlines the foundations of a baroque theory of the policy process, emphasizing resonance, excess, and theatricality as analytical categories for interpreting the dynamics of policy design and implementation in the region.