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This article is based on my personal experience interviewing political elite members during my Ph.D. research on social trajectories of Argentine national senators who occupied their seats between 2001 and 2011. Te description of the fieldwork experience shows the vicissitudes and difficulties pointed out by methodological works on elite interviews, such as access problems and power asymmetries, which give the interviewee a great control over the situation. This article narrates the ways in which those obstacles were overcome with the aim of producing valid and meaningful knowledge. Furthermore, I stress the importance of flexible research design in order to adjust strategies in the fieldwork by incorporating other methods like observation and the use of secondary sources. Discussing these issues may help other researchers working on elites to achieve a better design and improve their fieldwork.

“¿Qué pretende usted de mí?” Enfrentando obstáculos en las entrevistas a elites en una investigación sobre los senadores nacionales argentinos