Weekly Report - 12 July 2012 (WR-12-27)

 “In any other place in the world if just one person died (in violent clashes) the cabinet would fall but here nothing happens,” the regional president of Cajamarca, Gregorio Santos, said this week. Five people were killed last week and 25 injured in a protest in the north-eastern region against the proposed Conga gold mine. President Ollanta Humala decreed a state of exception for 30 days in three provinces of Cajamarca, which will remain in place until 1 August. He followed this conventional response, however, with a new initiative to try and break the long impasse.

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