Daniel Jacobo-Marín
1 April 2020
This paper discusses the constitutional energy reform in Mexico approved in 2013 and regulated in 2014, in order to analyze three central arguments: the apology of extraction, the accumulation of water rights and the dispossession through contamination. The analysis emphasizes the energy security and economic integration of North America as two elements that explain the transit of the Mexican state model of hydrocarbon extraction. Under this idea, the article proposes that hydraulic fracturing is emerging as a mechanism of water dispossession driven by the profuse demand for fossil fuels. This dispossession is characterized by water pollution to ensure the accumulation process, hampering the communal water uses and territorial rights.
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