No mining activities here

Tambogrande was the starting point. Since the year 2000 when the inhabitants of this region in the north of Peru got organized in a popular consultation to block the mining activities of the Manhattan company, more episodes began to occur.

Seven years later, in a popular consultation in the townships of Pacaipampa, Ayabaca and Carmen de la Frontera, the piuran community (of the department of Piura) was asking itself about the Rio Branco project. Would you like mining activities on your land? Precisely 94.53% of the community yelled back a resounding ‘no’. On September 16th, yet another step was taken: the provinces of Ayabaca, Huancabamba, Jaén and San Ignacio declared themselves areas free from mining.

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Published in O Eco Amazonia, digital newspaper from Brasil.