Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a899551
M. Bell, J. Budds
As Johnny Finn steps down a!er four years as JLAG’s Editor-in-Chief, 2023 marks a new era for the journal: for the %rst time we have a co-editorship arrangement, and for the %rst time we have female Editors-in-Chief. Martha Bell is Associate Professor of Geography and Environment at Ponti%cia Universidad Católica del Perú, where she researches historical landscapes and resource use, as well as climate change and disasters in Peru. Jessica Budds is Professor of Development Geography at Universität Bonn, where she works on the relationship between economic change, environmental governance and social development, with a particular focus on the water sector, and with experience in Brazil, Chile, and Peru. First and foremost, we would like to acknowledge the outstanding contribution of Johnny Finn, who developed several important initiatives upon which we will build. One such initiative is the possibility of translating selected articles from Spanish and Portuguese into English, thus supporting the journal’s role in increasing access to the work of geographers in and of Latin America writing in these languages. A second initiative is the broadening of submission formats to include JLAG perspectives and retrospectives, special issues, and cover art. Together, these projects help to expand JLAG content, enriching and diversifying our discipline. We are excited to continue to work with Johnny as part of our dedicated team of Associate Editors, which also comprises Eugenio Arima, Gabriela Valdivia, and Jörn Seemann –who additionally serves as Book Review Editor– and Visual Content Editor, Diana Tung. &e editorial team is supported by JLAG’s International Editorial Board, members of the CLAG community, and peer reviewers from far and wide, whose inputs we gratefully acknowledge. On the production side, we remain in the safe hands of our production manager, Yulia Garcia Sarduy, and the colleagues who translate, copyedit, and typeset the papers that you read. We also thank the CLAG board for accepting our proposal to transition from Associate Editors (since 2017 and 2020, respectively) to Co-Editors, and for the opportunity to lead and further develop the journal. Our aim is to consolidate the position of JLAG as a top choice for geographers writing on Latin America through showcasing the many themes, topics, theoretical perspectives, and methodologies that make Latin American geography such a rich and dynamic research area. We recognize, and will seek to enhance, the journal’s status as an independent, non-corporate, non-pro%t, and linguistically accessible outlet for our community. As such, our %rst major initiative will be to boost the pro%le of the journal in an expanding and increasingly competitive market, by fulfilling existing plans to ensure that the journal is fully indexed on major academic platforms. This process requires updating and streamlining editorial and review processes, with the goals of speeding up the review process, and improving tran
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a899566
Renato Amado Peixoto
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{"title":"Contracartografía de las movilizaciones sociales y de la violencia estatal en Perú: una reflexión metodológica / Counter-cartography of Social Mobilizations and State Violence in Peru: A Methodological Reflection","authors":"Luis Enrique Rivera Segura, Tania Herrera Romero","doi":"10.1353/lag.0.0197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.0.0197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47254297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Este artículo presenta la historia de la palma africana en México (1948-2018) teniendo en cuenta el contexto latinoamericano. Entre sus hallazgos más notables destaca el siguiente: la primera siembra de este monocultivo en condiciones no experimentales fue, posiblemente, llevada a cabo por el presidente Miguel Alemán en su finca Sayula (Veracruz), a principios de la década de 1950. Pero esta historia nos revela, además, cómo el Estado mexicano, protagonista de la expansión del cultivo, empleó la palma como una estrategia de modernidad capitalista (bajo preceptos nacionalistas, primero, y neoliberales, después) para transformar al campesinado y a la naturaleza en regiones de frontera tropical que fueron explotadas en pos del desarrollo nacional. El artículo concluye que los monocultivos deben ser entendidos no solo como proyectos económicos (relacionados con procesos de despojo y precarización laboral), sino también culturales (orientados a construir nuevos sujetos adecuados a las necesidades del mercado).
{"title":"Un monocultivo de frontera: historia de la palma africana como proyecto de modernidad capitalista en el sur de México (1948-2018) / A Frontier Monoculture: History of the African Oil Palm as a Project of Capitalist Modernity in Southern Mexico (1948-2018)","authors":"Antonio Castellanos Navarrete","doi":"10.1353/lag.0.0196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.0.0196","url":null,"abstract":"Este artículo presenta la historia de la palma africana en México (1948-2018) teniendo en cuenta el contexto latinoamericano. Entre sus hallazgos más notables destaca el siguiente: la primera siembra de este monocultivo en condiciones no experimentales fue, posiblemente, llevada a cabo por el presidente Miguel Alemán en su finca Sayula (Veracruz), a principios de la década de 1950. Pero esta historia nos revela, además, cómo el Estado mexicano, protagonista de la expansión del cultivo, empleó la palma como una estrategia de modernidad capitalista (bajo preceptos nacionalistas, primero, y neoliberales, después) para transformar al campesinado y a la naturaleza en regiones de frontera tropical que fueron explotadas en pos del desarrollo nacional. El artículo concluye que los monocultivos deben ser entendidos no solo como proyectos económicos (relacionados con procesos de despojo y precarización laboral), sino también culturales (orientados a construir nuevos sujetos adecuados a las necesidades del mercado).","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43271403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article I show the variety of perspectives that migrants in Mexico adopt toward detention, a procedure that criminalizes undocumented migration and justifies violence against migrants. Based on interviews, freedom of information requests, and case studies, I argue that migrants oscillate and sometimes stay in the middle between two contrasting positions about detention: resignation and resistance. While those in the resignation group accept the notion that they have committed a crime and deserve to be detained, those in the resistance group refuse to be regarded as criminals and question the existence of detention. I show how frequently migrant illegality is created and reinforced even among migrant populations. I also illustrate how many migrants make persuasive arguments against the violent border control policies that they experience.
{"title":"Resignation and Resistance: How do Undocumented Central American Migrants View Detention in Mexico?","authors":"A. Díaz de León","doi":"10.1353/lag.0.0194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.0.0194","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I show the variety of perspectives that migrants in Mexico adopt toward detention, a procedure that criminalizes undocumented migration and justifies violence against migrants. Based on interviews, freedom of information requests, and case studies, I argue that migrants oscillate and sometimes stay in the middle between two contrasting positions about detention: resignation and resistance. While those in the resignation group accept the notion that they have committed a crime and deserve to be detained, those in the resistance group refuse to be regarded as criminals and question the existence of detention. I show how frequently migrant illegality is created and reinforced even among migrant populations. I also illustrate how many migrants make persuasive arguments against the violent border control policies that they experience.","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43842896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores the relationship between water infrastructures and the identity dimension of citizenship. By combining concepts from urban political ecology and Foucault’s work on governmentality, this paper offers an analytical framework of hydro-social regimes of water access, which acknowledges both the material and discursive dimensions of urban infrastructures. This framework is used to analyse water access in the self-built neighbourhoods of Antofagasta, Chile. It is argued that urban infrastructures are crucial to the identity construction of urban dwellers as citizens, as they produce subjects with a particular sense of social belonging. This paper thus contributes to debates on urban infrastructures and citizenship in the context of self-built housing on the urban periphery
{"title":"Producing Citizenship Through Infrastructure: The Political Materiality of Water Access in Urban Chile","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/lag.0.0193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.0.0193","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the relationship between water infrastructures and the identity dimension of citizenship. By combining concepts from urban political ecology and Foucault’s work on governmentality, this paper offers an analytical framework of hydro-social regimes of water access, which acknowledges both the material and discursive dimensions of urban infrastructures. This framework is used to analyse water access in the self-built neighbourhoods of Antofagasta, Chile. It is argued that urban infrastructures are crucial to the identity construction of urban dwellers as citizens, as they produce subjects with a particular sense of social belonging. This paper thus contributes to debates on urban infrastructures and citizenship in the context of self-built housing on the urban periphery","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66811984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infrastructure & Latin American Environmental Geographies: An Introduction to our Special Issue","authors":"Jessica Hope, M. Arsel","doi":"10.1353/lag.0.0192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.0.0192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66811922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The trajectory of the Brazilian economy reveals that investments in infrastructure have periodically played a leading role in economic growth strategies and cycles. To examine its multiscale particularities, this paper assumes that the provision of infrastructure in Brazil relates to historical-structural changes in the country's economy, which has evolved from the national-developmentalist stage (1930s-1980s) towards neoliberalization, and has since the 1990s been subordinated to financialization. The paper discusses the provision of infrastructure in a peripheral context and analyzes the relationships formed in the infrastructure sector, emphasizing the marketization processes throughout the accumulation dynamics of Brazilian capitalism. It then considers the resurgence of contradictions that have arisen from providing infrastructure and services for collective consumption during during the recent coronavirus pandemic. And lastly, the paper argues for the alternative nature contained within an emancipatory infrastructure, in contrast to the hegemonic pattern that has historically entailed the realization of such investments in Brazil.resumo:A trajetória da economia brasileira revela que os investimentos em infraestrutura tem, periodicamente, desempenhado um importante papel nas estratégias econômicas e ciclos de crescimento. Para examinar as particularidades multiescalares do tema, e apoiado nas contribuições da Geografia Econômica e da Economia Política, o artigo assume que para entender a provisão de infraestrutura no Brasil, é necessário compreender as mudanças histórico-estruturais do país que, enquanto uma economia periférica, passa do período nacional-desenvolvimentista (1930-1990) para a neoliberalização e, desde a década de 1990, se subordina ao capitalismo financeirizado. O artigo discute a provisão de infraestrutura no contexto periférico, e, empregando elementos teórico-conceituais, vincula infraestrutura social e econômica, Estado e desenvolvimento. A partir desses elementos, analisa as relações forjadas no setor de infraestrutura, enfatizando o seu processo de mercadejação no âmbito das dinâmicas de acumulação do capitalismo brasileiro. Considera, em seguida, a ressurgência de contradições na provisão de infraestrutura e serviços de consumo coletivo durante a pandemia. E, por fim, o artigo argumenta a natureza alternativa contida na perspectiva de uma infraestrutura emancipatória, em contraposição ao padrão hegemônico que historicamente caracterizou a realização dos investimentos infraestruturais no Brasil.
巴西经济的发展轨迹表明，基础设施投资在经济增长战略和周期中周期性地发挥主导作用。为了研究其多尺度的特殊性，本文假设巴西基础设施的提供与该国经济的历史结构变化有关，巴西经济已经从国家发展主义阶段(20世纪30年代至80年代)向新自由主义化发展，并自20世纪90年代以来从属于金融化。本文讨论了在外围环境下的基础设施提供，并分析了基础设施部门形成的关系，强调了巴西资本主义积累动态的市场化过程。然后考虑到在最近的冠状病毒大流行期间，为集体消费提供基础设施和服务所产生的矛盾再次出现。最后，本文论证了包含在解放基础设施中的替代性质，与历史上需要在巴西实现此类投资的霸权模式形成对比。resume:A trajetória巴西经济数据:基础设施项目、周期、研究报告和重要文件的投资情况，如:(1)电子邮件和电子邮件:econômicas电子邮件和电子邮件。Para examinar as special as multiescales do tema, e apoiado as contribuições de Geografia Econômica ee Economia Política, o artigo assume que que Para enenderes a provisde de Brasil， necessário compreender as mudanas histórico-estruturais do país que, enquanto uma Economia pericica, passa de nacional- desenvolimentista (1930-1990) Para a neoliberizizar巴西，de de nacional desenvolimentista (1930-1990)， se suba ao capitalismo financiizado。3 .讨论关于基础设施与环境有关的规定，e, empregando elementos teórico-conceituais, vincula基础设施社会经济econômica, Estado e desenvimento。缔约方将要素，分析为:relações为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施部门，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施，为基础设施。因此，请考虑在大流行期间为基础设施和消费集体提供的服务提供ressurgência de contradições。从本质上看，巴西的基础设施是另一种选择，从另一个角度看，巴西的基础设施是另一种选择，巴西的基础设施是另一种选择，巴西的基础设施是另一种选择。
{"title":"Infrastructure in Brazil: From Marketization to Emancipation","authors":"Deborah Werner, Fabio Lucas Pimentel de Oliveira","doi":"10.1353/lag.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The trajectory of the Brazilian economy reveals that investments in infrastructure have periodically played a leading role in economic growth strategies and cycles. To examine its multiscale particularities, this paper assumes that the provision of infrastructure in Brazil relates to historical-structural changes in the country's economy, which has evolved from the national-developmentalist stage (1930s-1980s) towards neoliberalization, and has since the 1990s been subordinated to financialization. The paper discusses the provision of infrastructure in a peripheral context and analyzes the relationships formed in the infrastructure sector, emphasizing the marketization processes throughout the accumulation dynamics of Brazilian capitalism. It then considers the resurgence of contradictions that have arisen from providing infrastructure and services for collective consumption during during the recent coronavirus pandemic. And lastly, the paper argues for the alternative nature contained within an emancipatory infrastructure, in contrast to the hegemonic pattern that has historically entailed the realization of such investments in Brazil.resumo:A trajetória da economia brasileira revela que os investimentos em infraestrutura tem, periodicamente, desempenhado um importante papel nas estratégias econômicas e ciclos de crescimento. Para examinar as particularidades multiescalares do tema, e apoiado nas contribuições da Geografia Econômica e da Economia Política, o artigo assume que para entender a provisão de infraestrutura no Brasil, é necessário compreender as mudanças histórico-estruturais do país que, enquanto uma economia periférica, passa do período nacional-desenvolvimentista (1930-1990) para a neoliberalização e, desde a década de 1990, se subordina ao capitalismo financeirizado. O artigo discute a provisão de infraestrutura no contexto periférico, e, empregando elementos teórico-conceituais, vincula infraestrutura social e econômica, Estado e desenvolvimento. A partir desses elementos, analisa as relações forjadas no setor de infraestrutura, enfatizando o seu processo de mercadejação no âmbito das dinâmicas de acumulação do capitalismo brasileiro. Considera, em seguida, a ressurgência de contradições na provisão de infraestrutura e serviços de consumo coletivo durante a pandemia. E, por fim, o artigo argumenta a natureza alternativa contida na perspectiva de uma infraestrutura emancipatória, em contraposição ao padrão hegemônico que historicamente caracterizou a realização dos investimentos infraestruturais no Brasil.","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41984130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements by Karen Kampwirth (review)","authors":"Jesse Edward Tenenbaum","doi":"10.1353/lag.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46531,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Geography","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44028012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This paper argues that in Latin America, renewable energy and mining infrastructures are entangled in a logic of so-called green extractivism that rearticulates coloniality through infrastructural violence. It grounds the analysis in a case study of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, where a logic of hydroelectric extractivism entangles small hydropower and mining projects. This co-articulation of extractivist and green transition imperatives reflects a reconfiguration of the Mexican political settlement to make natural resource extraction compatible with, and even necessary to, mitigating climate change. While presented as sustainable development by state and corporate actors, Nahua and Totonac land and environmental defenders resist these projects and call them proyectos de muerte to indicate that they threaten Indigenous lives, livelihoods, and territory. In analyzing this case study, the paper dispels the prevalent assumption that small hydropower plants cause minimal socio-ecological impacts. The findings also highlight the contested role of the state, illustrating that a state's infrastructural power can perpetuate coloniality and infrastructural violence while also enabling political activism to effectively challenge them. The focus on small and sustainable infrastructure contributes to burgeoning research on green extractivism, while the emphasis on power relations challenges much of the current literature on energy and sustainability transitions.resumen:Este artículo propone que en América Latina las infraestructuras de energía renovable y minería se entrelazan en una lógica de "extractivismo verde" que rearticula la colonialidad mediante la violencia infraestructural. Este artículo sitúa su caso de estudio en la Sierra Norte de Puebla, México, donde una lógica de extractivismo hidroeléctrico entrelaza proyectos hidroeléctricos de pequeña escala y la minera. Esta coarticulación de imperativos extractivistas y de transición verde refleja una reconfiguración del acuerdo político mexicano para que la extracción de recursos naturales sea compatible y necesaria para mitigar el cambio climático. Aunque actores estatales y empresariales presentan estos proyectos como desarrollo sostenible, esfuerzos indígenas Nahua y Totonaca de resistencia y lucha por autodeterminación los han denominado "proyectos de muerte" para señalar que amenazan las vidas, los medios de subsistencia y los territorios indígenas. Mediante su análisis, este artículo disipa la suposición predominante de que las pequeñas centrales hidroeléctricas tienen un impacto socioecológico mínimo. Los hallazgos también ponen de relieve el controvertido papel del Estado, ilustrando que el "poder infraestructural" del Estado puede perpetuar la colonialidad y la violencia infraestructural, a la vez que permite un activismo político de disputarlas. El enfoque en las infraestructuras pequeñas y sostenibles contribuye a un cuerpo de investigación floreciente sobre extractivismo verd
本文认为，在拉丁美洲，可再生能源和采矿基础设施在所谓的绿色开采主义逻辑中纠缠不清，这种逻辑通过基础设施暴力重新阐明了殖民主义。它以墨西哥北普埃布拉山脉(Sierra Norte de Puebla)的一个案例为基础进行了分析，在那里，水力发电开采的逻辑将小型水力发电和采矿项目纠缠在一起。采掘者和绿色转型的共同诉求反映了墨西哥政治解决方案的重新配置，使自然资源开采与减缓气候变化相适应，甚至是必要的。虽然国家和企业将这些项目描述为可持续发展，但纳瓦人和托托纳克人的土地和环境捍卫者反对这些项目，并将其称为“死亡项目”，以表明它们威胁到土著居民的生命、生计和领土。通过对这一案例研究的分析，本文消除了普遍认为小型水电站造成的社会生态影响最小的假设。调查结果还强调了国家的争议性角色，说明一个国家的基础设施力量可以使殖民主义和基础设施暴力永久化，同时也使政治激进主义能够有效地挑战它们。对小型和可持续基础设施的关注有助于新兴的绿色采掘研究，而对权力关系的强调挑战了当前关于能源和可持续性转型的许多文献。简历:Este artículo propone que en amacacia Latina as infrastrucas energía renovable or minería se entrelazan en una lógica de" extractivismo verde" que rearticula la colonalidad mediante la violencia infrastruca。Este artículo sitúa在北普埃布拉山脉建立了一个新的研究项目，在墨西哥境内建立了一个新的研究项目，在墨西哥境内建立了一个新的研究项目，在墨西哥境内建立了一个新的研究项目，在墨西哥境内建立了一个新的研究项目，在墨西哥境内建立了一个新的研究项目。Esta coarticulación迫切需要的采掘者通过transición绿色反射和reconfiguración del acuerdo político墨西哥通过extracción自然回归与必要的cambio相兼容climático。特别行政区和临时行政区提出了特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目，特别行政区和临时行政区的共同项目indígenas。Mediante su análisis, este artículo disipa la suposición占主导地位，de que las pequeñas centrales hidroelactricas tienen unimpact socioecológico mínimo。Los hallazgos tamamicassi - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as - as在基础设施方面，基础设施和可持续发展组织(pequeñas)的贡献是在基础设施和可持续发展组织(investigación)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织(análisis)的基础设施和可持续发展组织。
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