Movimientos sociales y recursos naturales en América Latina: resistencias al neoliberalismo, configuración de alternativas

The imposition of the neoliberal model in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the recent return to economic growth in the region are mainly due to the massive exploitation of natural resources geared to exports and which, to a large extent, are controlled by transnational capital. As a result, a growing number of conflicts, social movements and sociopolitical consensus building have emerged and developed in the continent on local, national and regional levels. These efforts are part of a new cycle of social protest that arose in the second half of the 1990s. The main features that repre...