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2020년 1월 31일

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Metal News

Peru: Residents stage 48-hour protest against MMG copper mine for violating social commitments

“Challhuahuacho kicked off new round of strike against Peru’s Las Bambas copper mine”, 30th January 2020

…On Monday January 20, residents of Challhuahuacho in Peru conducted a 48-hour strike, in protest against MMG Limited who operates Las Bambas copper mine, violating its commitments in their agreements.

[T]he strike was aimed to call for reconsideration of the government and mining company, and prompt them to fulfill their commitments. Jacinto Lima Lucas, president of federation of indigenous communities said that Challhuahuacho is a town of “extreme poverty”, with most residents living below the poverty line…

Lucas cited a commitment by the ministry of agriculture to build five dams…He also said that the Las Bambas mining company was not in conformity with its work, social responsibility and commitment in the Challhuacho…

The Las Bambas copper mine faced several rounds of community protests in 2019. On February 4, the Outsidebamba community blocked a 12-km national road that crosses through the Yavi Yavi farm in Cuzco and leads to the port of Matarani. Subsequently, the Chumbivilcas community in Cuzco banned vehicles from passing through the mining corridor on September 22 and demanded the repeal of the MTC supreme decree, which made the transportation corridor a national highway...