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CATULLO, María Rosa. LARGE SCALE PROJECTS, POPULAR COMMITTEES AND INTEGRATION: “PRECURSORS OF SALTO GRANDE”. Relaciones [online]. 2017, vol.42, n.2, pp.1-10. ISSN 0325-2221.

This article refers to regional integration processes in Mercosur countriesfrom large binational hydroelectric enterprises. In particular, it analyzes a "transnational movement" related to the Argentine-Uruguayan Salto Grande dam whose first agreement was signed in December 1946. In that agreement a binational entity that would build the dam, called Technical Commission of Salto Grande (CTM), was established. Thispaper focuses on the workof the ''popular committess" located in the Argentine and Uruguayan cities bordering the river Uruguay, especially in the city of Concordia (Argentina) and Salto (Uruguay) for the realization of the dam. It is important to note that its informants were interviewed by the author during her extensive fieldwork conducted in 1993 for her Doctoral Thesis. Context in which it presents infomation that were never used before and that deserve a reinterpretation in light of the history of the dam.

Palavras-chave : regional integration - transnational movement - Salto Grande dam - Argentina -Uruguay.

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