There was no white smoke. The president of the Council of Ministers, Mirtha Vásquez, yesterday issued an ultimatum to the Chumbivilcas communities, in the Cusco, to unlock the southern mining corridor. He gave until today at noon to restart the dialogue without impositions or measures of force. The energetic exhortation was sent virtually in the […]
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Las Bambas: the dialogue table begins in Cusco with the Chumbivilcas communities
The representatives of the communities of Chumbivilcas They arrived in Cusco to participate in the meeting called by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM). The meeting, which seeks to restart negotiations around the conflict that keeps the Southern Mining Corridor blocked, takes place without the presence of Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez. The president […]
Chumbivilcas will participate in the meeting called today by PCM with Las Bambas
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, […]
Camisea and the Regional Government of Cusco inaugurate second NGV tap in the imperial city
Cusco It will have its second vehicular natural gas (NGV) station, thanks to the Natural Gas project for vehicular use in the Cusco region, promoted by the Camisea Consortium and the regional government of the imperial city. This time, the tap will be located in the San Sebastián district. As recalled, the project, which required […]
Minera Las Bambas stops operating from this Saturday
The mining company MMG Las Bambas announced in a statement that it will close production at its copper mine, located in Challahuahuacho (Apurímac) starting this Saturday. The reason, he points out, is the blockade of the communities in the province of Chumbivilcas (Cusco) that has persisted since November 19. “Due to the continuous restrictions on […]
Agrarian strike hit the reactivation in Cusco
The agricultural strike in Cusco was lifted yesterday at noon, after the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) announced the arrival of Minister Víctor Raúl Mayta Frisancho, to the imperial city for December 23. The nearly two-day protest was suspended, but its consequences affect the economic and tourist reactivation region of. Edy Cuellar, president […]
Southern regions received more than S / 3,465 million in transfers from mining
In the first eleven months of the year, the resources generated by the mining activity that were transferred to the regional and local governments of the south of the country exceeded S / 3,465 million, according to the latest edition of the Mining Statistical Bulletin of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem). The regions […]
Camisea defends cost overruns on LPG balloon
Cusco. 80% of the demand for LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) in Peru is supplied by the Camisea Consortium that extracts the resource from the deposits located in the Cusco district of Megantoni. The remaining 20% are imported by companies such as Limagas, Llamagas, Repsol, among others. Despite this distribution, the price is defined by the […]
Inflation in the south slowed, but remains above the national average
Inflation slowed down in November from 0.58% to 0.45%, but in the southern regions its percentages are still above the national average. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Apurimac (0.91%), Tacna (0.80%) and Puno (0.80%) are the regions with the highest inflation. The items that registered the most increase were accommodation, […]
Gas balloon raises the price to S / 60 in distributors of the city of Cusco
The price of the LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) bottle of 10 kilograms rose S / 60 in the distributors of the city of Cusco. The raise applies since yesterday and gas is already sold between S / 56 and S / 60. “Solgas was S / 54. From today (yesterday) we sell it for S […]