This article aims to analyse the characteristics of the expansion of the extractive model – and the concomitant conflicts – between 2015 and 2019, years in which the conservative neoliberal Mauricio Macri administration headed the national government. To achieve this objective, we combine the analysis of secondary statistical data and national and provincial legislation with a survey of conflicts and resistances based on secondary sources (press and documents from organisations) and primary sources (testimonies and field notes). The information analysed shows a renewed expansion of extractive activities through various public policies. In terms of conflict, this process went hand in hand with: a greater visibility of disputes with indigenous communities, in parallel to their stigmatisation; a nationalisation of peasant demands through protests in large cities; and a socio-environmental problematization that expanded from mega-mining to hydrocarbons and fumigations.
Agribusiness; Large-scale mining; Hydrocarbons; Conservative government; Public Policies