Latin America’s Great mining, impacts and implications.

Abstract

This work inquires from a political en economic perspective the main characteristics, impacts and implications regarding the beginning of the XXI century mining.  It starts with an introduction regarding mining characteristics and its implications arguing about the present existence of a (neo) colonialist scheme for mining extraction and transfer movement, that among other reasons lets primary/exporter countries internalize the socio environmental costs related, a feature that acquires more relevance everyday in face of  growing mineral consuming standards. At a second moment a critical analysis is offered regarding the international mineral capital action in Latin America and the exterior transference degree and in a third section the new miner boom affair in Mexico is tackled in order to reach towards   a concrete analysis. This gives rise, in a fourth and last section, to an inquiry regarding the paper played by Mexico and Latin America as an important mineral reserve, essential, strategic and critical, as well, and whatever it means from the American hegemony perspective. It concludes with a reflection regarding the need to build economic, social and ecological harmonic alternatives, taking into account each region’s complexities and special features, assuring the future of these places.