Peru's poor Andean hamlets, backed by state, unleash anger at mines


  • World
  • Tuesday, 14 Dec 2021

Felicita Quispe looks on as trucks pass on a highway used by mining firms, in the community of Chumbivilcas, outside of Cusco, Peru October 13, 2021. Picture taken October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Angela Ponce

PISACCASA, Peru (Reuters) - Gabino Leon is angry, and he is not alone.

The farmer in Peru's southern Apurimac region watches each day as hundreds of trucks carrying copper roar past his adobe home, kicking up dust on a potholed dirt road that has become a lightning rod for protests hitting the world's no. 2 producer of the metal.

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