Riqueza, marginación y luchas campesinas en Mezcala, Guerrero

Abstract

Wealth, marginalization and peasant struggles in Mezcala, Guerrero. Mezcala, Mazapa, Carrizalillo and Xochipala peasant communities have suffered the impact of broadening gold mining activities of Goldcorp a Canadian company in their communal lands under the system of open pit. Mining activity is a process of accumulation by dispossession through which companies take community resources to incorporate them into capitalist circulation, leading to a paradoxical situation: the more natural resources are extracted, the greater poverty for the population. In recent years this reflects in a level increase of marginalization in the region and a profit increase of Goldcorp. In this context, peasant groups have conducted a series of collective actions to demand better conditions in the leases of their land (and a corresponding wealth return which mining company takes out of their land).