"Truce in protest against major Chinese mining firm" -3 August 2021-.

...Citizens of a village in the Andes have called off an 11-day protest against the country's largest Chinese mining company, which ships copper to the Asian giant, Peru's government has announced. The strike was lifted "thanks to dialogue" in the district of Chumbivilcas, the president, Pedro Castillo, said on his Twitter account. Trucks from the Las Bambas mine, owned by a consortium led by Chinese state-owned mining giant Minmetals through its subsidiary MMG Limited, pass through the district. The villagers are demanding that the roads through which more than 300 copper trucks pass daily be reclassified so that they can receive income that the mining company does not pay them. They are also asking to be compensated for the damage allegedly caused by the heavy vehicles on their land. The strike was marked by police violence, which resulted in six injuries and briefly cleared the roads where trucks leave for ports on their way to China. More villages had joined the protest when the villagers granted a 60-day truce to the new management...According to official figures, the mining company produced 312,000 tonnes of copper in 2020. Peru is the world's second largest copper producer after Chile and almost all of its production goes to China.