Víctor Villa, legal advisor to the inhabitants of Chumbivilcas, in Cusco, confirmed that community representatives will participate in the meeting called for today by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) together with the negotiation team of MMG Ltd, operator of the Las Bambas mining unit in Apurímac.
According to information released by Reuters, the leader said he gave in at the insistence of the Executive to prevent the demands of the population from being ignored days after Las Bambas stopped all its machines, last Saturday the 18th. They hope not to reach the declaration of the state of emergency.
“To prevent people from demonizing the communities as intransigent, it was decided to attend the meeting,” said Villa.
For his part, the vice president of legal affairs of Las Bambas, Claudio Cáceres, ruled out that the company, responsible for the production of 2% of the world’s copper, has planned to initiate legal action against Peru, but made clear its position to expedite talks to clear the blocked road.
“Currently we are mainly committed to being able to restart a constructive and real dialogue, at the moment we are not thinking of taking legal action,” said Cáceres for RPP.
It should be noted that last week the government of President Pedro Castillo called for a new dialogue table with the community members, who described the meeting as a “joke” in the first instance.
The current blockade has occurred since November 20, but protests in the Southern Mining Corridor, where Las Bambas shares territory with other large projects such as Hudbay and Antapaccay, have occurred since July 23.
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