Elita Yopla Herrera is a land and environmental defender and member of the Cajamarca Peasant Patrols (Rondas Campesinas de Cajamarca).

Since 2014, Elita Yopla and her husband, defender César Estrada Chuquilín, have reported being victims of monitoring, death threats and attacks against their physical and psychological integrity for denouncing and opposing the possible environmental damage caused by the Conga Mining Project of the Yanacocha, S.R.L. company.

Among the most recent events, on 7 May 2024, Elita Yopla was allegedly subjected to acts of intimidation and physical aggression by an unknown woman on the borders of the hamlets of El Amaro and Valle Laguna Azul, in the district of Huasmín.

Since this date, the defender also reports having received constant intimidating messages and calls, in which she is insulted or simply called and hung up on.