In the Andes, Peruvian families resist China’s mining giant

Por Ernesto Cabral · La Encerrona

Nearly 20 years ago, one of the Chinese government’s largest mining companies set up operations in Peru’s central Andes with one goal: to extract more than one billion tons of copper, a mineral crucial to China’s growth. The mining project, however, meant that thousands of people would have to leave their centuries-old hometown and move [...] La entrada In the Andes, Peruvian families resist China’s mining giant se publicó primero en La Encerrona.