Peru’s Deputy Minister of Territorial Governance Raúl Molina Martínez urged people in the southwestern Chumbivilcas province to stop blockading the Southern Runway (Corredor Vial Sur) and to return to the dialogue table so that their demands can be resolved within the country’s legal framework. Since September 22, 2019, different communities along the runway have been protesting and carrying out roadblocks so that Minera Las Bambas cannot transport its copper concentrate to the port of Matarani for shipment. Protesters claim, among other things, that their farmland has been cut by the highway and that emissions from t ... (full story)