A government negotiating team sent to Peru's southern copper belt to calm r...
LIMA - A government negotiating team sent to Peru’s southern copper belt to calm rising tensions at a Chinese-owned mine was repelled by indigenous protesters who hurled rocks at its helicopter on Wednesday, a government official said.
However, protesters used slingshots to hurl rocks at the ministers’ helicopter when it arrived at the blockade, where they had hoped to restart talks with representatives of the indigenous community of Fuerabamba, Development Minister Paola Bustamante, part of the team, said in a televised interview.
Fuerabamba villagers say the men were set up to discredit their demands and have summoned other villages to back them in broader protests against the arrests. Las Bambas, MMG’s flagship mine, produced nearly 400,000 tonnes of copper last year, about 2 percent of the world’s copper and 1 percent of Peru’s gross domestic product.
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