The capitalist dispossession of nature has become one of the distinctive -and tragic-signs of our times. Latin America is one of the richer regions in biodiversity and, not casually, one of the main targets of natural commons' mercantilization and privatization by transnational corporations and States. However, numerous social resistances emerge to defend their territories and to propose modes of production and consumption that are respectful of life and people's self-determination. In this context, the objectives of the present article are: 1)-to deconstruct the systemic logics that led us to understand the profound roots of the global civilizatory crisis and, specially, the historic role reserved to Latin America as a provider of territory and nature for the valorization of capital; 2)-to characterize the diverse socio-economic models and State's forms that are disputing the regional future, considering their respective relations with the expansion of neoextractivism in the last decade; 3)to analyze the emancipatory praxis of the socio-environmental movements that grow over the subcontinent.
