For a few hours on Sunday, some 40 people from the farming community of Tacrara, located in the Cusco department in southern Peru, blockaded a road used by Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) to transport copper from its Constancia project to the Port of Matarani. Local media report that about 60 trucks carrying mineral were being prevented from leaving Cusco’s Espinar province. The protesters were demanding compensation for the use of a road that, according to them, Hudbay’s trucks were not supposed to be using. However, following a meeting with representatives from the Toronto-based company, the ... (full story)