Minería marina como parte de los territorios del capital

Colonización del mundo marino: resistencia en el Golfo de Ulloa, México

Abstract

The Mexican government handed over a US company, thousands of hectares in the Gulf of Ulloa (Baja California Sur), to do marine mining. The goal is to extract 350 million tons of phosphate sand for 50 years in order to be used for fertilizers. But the Government did not take  into  account  that  this  territory  is  a  Marine  Priority  Area  for  Conservation,  and  that  thousands of fishermen, fishing cooperatives, tourism service providers, and others depend on this sea to survive. From the governmental perspective, the project is very important be-cause the phosphorus extracted, will be fundamental for the future of humanity, since this will depend on the food. This could be the mining of the XXI Century. A mining that looks for the saving of diverse costs (that in the sea are possible), and above all the “avoiding” the conflictivity in the terrestrial territories where the mineral is. However, as we shall see, the sea is also a disputed territory.