[Excerpt translation from Spanish to English provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

"Mineral production chain companies force workers to work despite Vizcarra's announcement" - 23 March 2020

During the first days after the state of emergency, several complaints have been received from mining workers of the mining companies: Glencore (Cusco), MMG Las Bambas [part of MMG, part of China Minmetals] (Apurimac), Southern [part of Grupo Mexico] (Tacna), etc., who denounced that they were working normally despite the state of emergency that initially did not exempt mining activity as an indispensable activity that could continue to develop like the companies that are in the area of food and health in this time of crisis. Likewise, Red Muqui recently received complaints from workers of mineral concentration and export companies (IMPALA and PERUBAR) who denounced that they were forced to work despite the latest announcement by President Martin Vizcarra on Friday 20, which states that the mining operations to be developed must be "remote and confined", so that people are not exposed.