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Weekly Report - 22 April 2010 (WR-10-16)
PERU: Government caves in to mining protesters
Days after the government managed to defuse protests from informal
miners in south-eastern Peru by agreeing to discuss a decree imposing
restrictions on gold prospecting, the government was again forced to make
gestures to another group of mining protesters in the south-east. Local
inhabitants of Islay province in the department of Arequipa erected a roadblock
on the Panamerican highway on 14 April to demand the suspension of Southern
Perú's planned Tía María copper-mining project. Six days later, the prime
minister, Javier Velásquez, and four cabinet ministers persuaded the protesters
to break up the roadblock after making various concessions, including the
temporary suspension of the project.
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