Peru: Cajamarca martyrs put to rest amid ongoing civil strike–Solidarity...
Cross-Posted from WW4 Report, 07/10/2012 and 07/12/2012 On July 6, in a silent mass demonstration that filled the central plaza of Celendín town, last rites were held for three of the five campesinos...
View ArticlePeru anti-mining struggles: an official in Cajamarca switches sides, peasant...
August 16, 2012. Source: WW4 Report In a turn-around in the conflict over the proposed Conga gold mine in Cajamarca, Peru, right-wing fujimorista congressman from the region, Joaquín Ramírez Gamarra,...
View ArticlePeru protesters push to stop $5 billion Newmont mine
By Mitra Taj, June 17, 2013. Source: Reuters Thousands of opponents of a $5 billion gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes on Monday, vowing to stop the company from eventually...
View ArticlePeru: Police fire on Cajamarca protestors…again
By Bill Weinberg, July 8, 2013. Source: World War 4 Report National Police troops in Peru’s Cajamarca region opened fire July 6 on campesinos attempting to attend the public presentation of an...
View ArticlePeru: Protesters tear down gate at Conga mine site
24 August, 2013. Source: WW4 Report Campesinos occupying the contested Conga mine site in Peru’s Cajamarca region on Aug. 20 tore down a gate they said had been illegally erected by the Yanacocha...
View ArticleAnti-mining organizers attacked, murdered in Peru
Deadly attack on family of miner leader September 25, 2013. Source: World War 4 Report The wife and infant son of a local mining leader were assassinated last week in the community of Pamputa,...
View ArticlePeru: US court action over Cajamarca repression
February 8, 2014. Source: WW4 Report EarthRights International (ERI) on Jan. 24 filed an action in federal court in Denver on behalf of a protestor left paralyzed by police violence at the site of...
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