Lights and shades in the growth of the region of Rosario

Abstract

This paper attempts to find out some aspects about the new and significant growth in Rosario area in the last years, due particularly to the so called “soy boom”.Contradictions are here unveiled, between the great development of soy exportation and its secondary industries which have reached unknown levels benefiting only a few people, and the deterioration of large groups plunged into poverty. The Rosario of Conferences, such as the III International Conference on the Spanish Language, of important cultural events, of tourism, of the city-port, of foreign investment capitals, and the dark view of life of isolated social groups.