Patagonia.

Abstract

Describes the region, which is not lacking in resources but these are insufficiently exploited because of a) an anti-social and anti-economic landholding system; b) a primitive land use, especially sheep rearing, which leads to depopulation; c) the lack of an urban system: the few towns in the region have no economic or political power, and there is no regional capital. Patagonia is an internal colony of Argentina, its pastoral and mining activities benefiting the rest of the country without being recompensed by public works. -J.Naylon