Hidrovía Paraguay Paraná, disputas por el territorio y conflictividad ambiental: el imperio Cargill frente a la comunidad de pescadores/as del Bajo Paraná (2003-2023)

Abstract

Since 1990s, in a context of progress of neoliberal policies in Argentina and Latin America, was consolidated an unprecedented process of privatization and foreignization of waterways, coasts, and ports. Within this framework, the countries of the Platin Basine sign the “Agreement of transport river by Paraguay-Paraná waterway” (1992) and the Gran Rosario agro-industrial port pole is developed on the coasts of the Paraná river. The installation of mega infrastructures linked to the extractivist complex generates tensions with other pre-existing logics of appropriation, production and significance of the territory.

From an anthropological perspective, in the following paper we propose to reflect on the environmental conflict produced in the community of fishermen of "Bajo Paraná" from the start-up, in 2005, of an industrial plant and two grain ports, owned by the Cargill company, of the Villa Gobernador Gálvez y Alvear (Santa Fe, Argentina).