Mining extractivism in Mexico under the Fourth Transformation 2018-2024: Mining extractivism in Mexico under the Fourth Transformation 2018-2024

Abstract

Despite various pronouncements in Andrés López Obrador's presidential campaign against neoliberalism and extractivism in the exploitation of Mexico's natural resources, since the beginning of his presidential term on December 1, 2018, his speech on mining has been to respect extractivism in force for more than 40 years with 20 million hectares concessioned to large Mexican and foreign mining corporations, proposing that said corporations should function as they do outside the country, take care of the environment and grant better wages. Faced with the existence of hundreds of social conflicts and environmental disasters due to mining activities in Mexico, it is to be expected that conflicts between hundreds of communities, mining corporations and the Mexican State will continue to strengthen the pattern of neoliberal accumulation, reproduction and domination with great political alliances with its beneficiaries.