Between empires and nationalism. Geopolitics of hydrocarbons Amazon

Abstract

This paper does an analysis of the geopolitical forces involved during the capitalist material appropriation -productive andin practice- in the Amazon oil resources. It focuses specifically on every country's territorial design and the region's collectivity. U.S. energy policies determine national and regional projects, and éllso subordinate theeconomic and technological developments in the Amazon region. This work highlights sorne contradictions arousing ftom local capital accumulation of capital.