The extractive activity of hydrocarbon exploitation (oil and gas) that has been carried out for dozens of years in the region of Papantla has a direct impact on the lives of men and women in the rural municipalities where this activity takes place. Their situation of social vulnerability is magnified by the use of fracking technique for oil exploitation, which has devastating effects on the environment, on human rights and on the health of inhabitants. These impacts can affect men and women differently, so I am interested in pointing out that the application of extractivist policies in the field of hydrocarbons may increase the vulnerability and social exclusion experienced by these women from rural localities, where there is a high percentage of indigenous peoples. The data will be examined taking into consideration the impacts of neoliberal policies at the local level, as well as the fact that local dynamics are part of inter-legal processes embedded in historical and power dynamics. Qualitative and quantitative information obtained from fieldwork and the use of documentary sources will be used.
