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Submitted July 22, 2021
Published 2021-07-22

Artículos

No. 29 (2021): Cuadernos Nacionales

Impacto del extractivismo en la zona occidental (1946-2014)

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Published: 2021-07-22

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Roquebert, J. L. (2021). Impacto del extractivismo en la zona occidental (1946-2014). Cuadernos Nacionales, (29), 48–56. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/cuadernos_nacionales/article/view/2303
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Abstract

The extractivism turned the Latin American region into an exportation site of its natural resources to Europe, like the precious metals, making easier the transformation of the feudalist to the capitalist economic system. This situation favoured the beginning of the “world-system” and its classification of central and peripheral countries, being the dominant and dominated respectively. The western zone of the country worked as a supplier zone, of lesser importance, to the transit zone at the beginning of our history. This situation was modified by the creation of the U.S. transnational company’s banana enclaves at the beginning of the XX century. Thus, the entry of this region to the world system was linked to the export-oriented monoculture extractivism. Nevertheless, this affirmation suppose the questioning of today’s tendency to think that extractivism is only related to the mining, hydroelectric and hydrocarbon mega projects.

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