A year after the policy of repression suffered by the neighbours of Andalgalá who objected to the mining project of Agua Rica, environmentalists of Santiago del Estero held, on Tuesday, a day of awareness against the consequences of mega open-pit mining exploitations.

El Valle de Uco in Mendoza is, like the majority of places across Argentina, torn apart by large scale investment in agribusiness and extractivism in general, condemnation of the inhumane conditions of rural work, and intermediate cities, more and more socially polarized with the advancement of these new times. However, also like most of these places on the margins of large urban areas, there are places where new ways of seeing life are emerging, of relating to other people and to the natural world, thanks to the tenacity of groups who, for various reasons, understand the mood of this new century. They view promises of a belated and peripheral modernity (development, progress) with critical eyes and search for new ways of thinking and ways of living.