GEOPOLITICAL FLOWS OF PARANA RIVER

Parana River 2019, Rosario city, Argentine.

The Paraná River is not only an impressive landscape, its monumental river currents are also metaphors of its historicity. Its long history of explorations highlights its strategic geopolitical character, which makes it impossible to think about its history alone, but above all its present, through the lens of hydropolitics.

The Paraná river is also a huge infrastructure of the production modes of agro-export extractivism. Enormous transnational ships parade in front of Rosario City (Argentine) through the Paraná-Paraguay waterway, currently concessioned to Belgian capital until 2021. The renewal of its concession has awakened the lobby of Dutch, Belgian and Chinese capital interested in taking over the new privatization fluvial cycle.