“…While some countries managed to attain significant progress in securing social inclusion through redistributive policies – notably in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela – the negative socio-environmental implications of this pattern of growth also became increasingly apparent. Various patterns of exclusion and harm were exposed, such as the detrimental effects of industrial agricultural practices on human health and the environment and its relation to a new wave of land-grabbing practices (Borras et al, 2012), mining (Saguier and Peinado, 2016; Svampa, 2011), and infrastructure projects associated with extractive industries such as hydroelectric dams complexes (Saguier, 2012b), among others. In other words, the advancement of (resource) extractivist policies and practices enabled growth regimes based on the disentitlement of social rights of social sectors and the commodification of nature.…”