Ramón Balcázar Morales
Ramón Balcázar Morales, Executive Director, Fundación Tantí and PhD Student, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Ramón Balcázar Morales, Chilean socio-environmental activist and researcher. Since 2016 he is the founder and director of Fundación Tantí, an independent non-profit organization created in San Pedro de Atacama to promote agroecology and raise awareness regarding the value of Andean wetlands and a just, fair, and post-extractivist socioecological transition. Ramón is a member of the Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats (OPSAL), a cross-border collective that brings together indigenous leaders, activists and researchers from Chile, Argentina and Bolivia in the defense of Andean salt flats and wetlands threatened by lithium mining. Ramón was a CONACYT fellow and is a doctoral researcher in the Postgraduate Program in Rural Development at the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico, where through collaborative and territorially situated research in the Salar de Atacama he seeks to account for the implications of green extractivism in the Andean rurality in a context of multiple crises. He's led several projects and publications such as the book Salares Andinos (2021) and the documentary Water is Worth More than Lithium (2021).
Ramón Balcázar Morales, Executive Director, Fundación Tantí and PhD Student, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Ramón Balcázar Morales, Chilean socio-environmental activist and researcher. Since 2016 he is the founder and director of Fundación Tantí, an independent non-profit organization created in San Pedro de Atacama to promote agroecology and raise awareness regarding the value of Andean wetlands and a just, fair, and post-extractivist socioecological transition. Ramón is a member of the Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats (OPSAL), a cross-border collective that brings together indigenous leaders, activists and researchers from Chile, Argentina and Bolivia in the defense of Andean salt flats and wetlands threatened by lithium mining. Ramón was a CONACYT fellow and is a doctoral researcher in the Postgraduate Program in Rural Development at the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico, where through collaborative and territorially situated research in the Salar de Atacama he seeks to account for the implications of green extractivism in the Andean rurality in a context of multiple crises. He's led several projects and publications such as the book Salares Andinos (2021) and the documentary Water is Worth More than Lithium (2021).