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Iztapalapa. Revista de ciencias sociales y humanidades
On-line version ISSN 2007-9176Print version ISSN 0185-4259
Abstract
VALLADARES DE LA CRUZ, Laura R.. The siege of indigenous autonomies due to the extractive mining model in Mexico. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2018, vol.39, n.85, pp.103-131. ISSN 2007-9176. https://doi.org/10.28928/revistaiztapalapa/852018/atc5/valladaresdelacruzlr.
This article aims to present an overview of the impacts thas has the mine extractivism activities on the indigineous autonomies, that has been undergoing in Mexico, that has resulted in the delivery of indigenous territories in the form of exploitation and exploration concessions, in favor of large national and transnational corporations. My purpose is to show the main paper that the Mexican State has in the positioning of the country as an attractive space for the large corporations, despite the high costs in the field of human, collective and environmental rights. This setting, aloud to understand the strategies of struggle and resistance that the indigenous people, among other social actors, are waging to stop or revert the process of dispossession if their lands and to enforce their constitutional rights.
Keywords : Autonomy; Mining Laws; extractivism; territorial dispossession; resistance.