Popular Assembly for the Water of Mendoza: Resistance to Metal Mining and Vale in the Province – interview with Marcelo Giraud

Authors

  • Daiana Melón Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Célia Regina Congílio Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará
  • Marcelo Giraud Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v22i41.46683

Keywords:

mega-mining, Vale, Mendoza, Potassium.

Abstract

Thanks to popular mobilization and resistance, the Argentine province of Mendoza has succeeded in stopping numerous mega-mining projects, among them the Vale do Rio Doce Company. At the same time, the province has approved a law that prohibits metallic mega-mining in its territory. Despite multiple attempts to declare it unconstitutional, the law has been ratified on numerous occasions. The Popular Assembly for the Water of Mendoza has had a fundamental role in the environmental struggle in the province.

Author Biographies

Daiana Melón, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Doctoranda en Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Investigaciones Geográficas – Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

Célia Regina Congílio, Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará

Doctora en Ciencias Sociales. Profesora en la Universidad Federal del Sur y Sudeste del Pará, Marabá-PA, Brasil.

Marcelo Giraud, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Licenciado y Profesor en Geografía, integrante de la cátedra Geografía de los Espacios Mundiales de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, y, además, miembro de la Asamblea Popular por el Agua de Mendoza, Argentina.

Published

2020-01-02

How to Cite

Melón, D., Congílio, C. R., & Giraud, M. (2020). Popular Assembly for the Water of Mendoza: Resistance to Metal Mining and Vale in the Province – interview with Marcelo Giraud. Lutas Sociais, 22(41), 280–293. https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v22i41.46683