Mega-mining and human rights in contemporary Mexico. 1982-2018

The objective is to study mega-mining in Mexico, based on its contribution to domestic economic development with eco-social impacts, along with the treatment of human rights that it generates in the communities. From political ecology and ecological economics, it is pertinent to analyze the territorial dispossession that causes conflicts between transnational private capital companies and communities for the right to natural commons gradually converted into merchandise. The question is: How does the process of attention to human rights originate in the mining industry and how does this phenomenon manifest itself? The hypothesis states that mega-mining practiced in Mexico by transnational private capital during the neoliberal development model, has generated supplies for other branches of the national economy, in exchange of violating human rights, and the involvement of Mexican communities surrounding mining megaprojects. Preliminary results indicate that mega-mining in Mexico is configured as a postcolonial enclave economy, where the extractive capital involved under the figure of Socially Responsible and Sustainable Enterprise is validated by a State policy of territorial dispossession that sacrificed half of the Mexican land and violated human rights.