El uso hegemónico del agua en la laguna Chignahuapan 1940-1969

Abstract

This article analyzes changes in the predominant use of water, from a Political Geographic perspective, in the municipalities of Almoloya del Río, San Mateo Texcalyacac and Santa Cruz Atizapan of the Lerma Upper Basin, basically from the 1940’s to the 60’s of the XXth century. Social, economic and political elements that define natural conditions will be considered. This proposal, from a Political Geographic perspective, is developed in opposition to pristine nature schools of thought. In contrast with this current, we pose the problem of appropriation and use of water as a second nature, in which power relations and the model of substitution of importations and the consequent urbanization and industrialization demand extraction and transfer of water from the Upper Basin of Lerma to Mexico City. The partial drainage of the Chignahuapan Lake is an environmental manifestation of a way of appropriation and use of water that responds to a model of development with precise interests that initiated the production of the national space, within the Mexican capitalist system under an authoritarian political regime.