Concentration of the transnational agro-exporting capital and regional reconfiguration in Michoacán, Mexico

As of 2014, the agricultural exports of the state of Michoacán occupy the first steps of the international fresh fruit market, with strawberry, avocado and lemon being representative. The objective of this work is to explain this agro-industrial success as a result of two moments in the expansion of transnational agro-export capital in Michoacán; the first during the period of rise and stabilization of the neoliberal regime from 1982 to 2002, and the second during the period from 2003 to 2014, the form of expansion due to the way in which the over-accumulation crisis is solved. This expansion of capital is spatialized through the configuration of a macro-exporting region, the result of the concentration and centralization of capital and of a technological strategy of transnational companies; Its effects are the subordination of social structures, a deep productive specialization and the articulation of peasant communities that provide cheap labor and food. This analysis shows how the territorialization of the accumulation process during the studied period values ​​the social relations contained in the territories and deploys various mechanisms to solve the accumulation crisis.