O DEBATE SOBRE A FÁBRICA DE CELULOSE NO RIO URUGUAI: UM CONLFITO ECOLÓGICO DISTRIBUTIVO

After seven years of discussion on the installation of a major project of pulp mills on the Uruguay river banks, the debate stopped being a simple diplomatic conflict between the governments of Argentina and Uruguay. On this paper this is identified as an ecological distribution conflict. The scenery in which self-organized neighbors, organizations, networks and environmental coalitions, groups of researchers, technicians and experts discuss and settle different strategies to give visibility to the conflict is reconstructed from a political point of view. This paper also focuses on why, in spite of the start-up in an unilateral way of this polemic project, actions and arguments are still being held for the rights of citizens and governments