The first peronismo and the Mesopotamian rivers

Abstract

Transport logistics in an agrarian country and the generation of energy saving oil during productive economic models are problems of long standing in Argentina. The Argentine Mesopotamia had a prominent place in both problems. Flanked by the two most important natural highways of Argentina (the rivers Paraná and Uruguay) but disconnected from the rest of the country by it insulate characteristic; with a dense harbor history from the National Organization, by such condition of isolation, but with rivers less and less navigated; with hydraulic flows with a powerful energy potential but whose rapids shared with Paraguay and Uruguay, these challenges required substantive public policies to solve or mitigate them. The intervention hypotheses
were determined during the first Perón´s government between building bridges or improving the system of rafts, between dredging deeper or changing the concept of root by betting on the convoys of barges and among the nuclear energy, thermal energy or hydroelectric energy. In this work we dealt with three works and initiatives that affected in particular the Entre Ríos province and Mesopotamia in general: the shortening of the journey of the rafts that united the
provinces of Santa Fe and Buenos Aires with that province, the introduction of river transport as an alternative to dredging and the use of the rapids of the Uruguay River as generators of hydroelectric energy. Palliative the first, profound the others, its historical analysis allows for a reflection and a debate that is still sustained.