Redes y organizaciones sociales en el proceso de ocupación del Gran Chaco

Abstract

The object of this article is to analyze the land occupation process —process done mainly by concentrating and privatizing territory— during the previous decades of the Bolivian-Paraguayan War, between 1932 and 1935 (when this land was finally nationalized). The land acquisition process by the Spanish entrepreneur Carlos Casado del Alisal —one of the most important and polemic land owner in the Paraguayan Chaco region— will allow us to understand the way in which the privatization of territories was based on social, political and entreprenurials networks built in Argentina during the 1880 decade, particularly on the Spanish Patriotic Association of Buenos Aires.