Informal miners hit the table again: they demand from the government a supreme decree that annuls the deadline to regulate the use of explosives, set for August 17.
It is not a last minute start. They decided in assembly on 7 and 8 of this month, they put it in writing and sent it to the work table of the PCM.
But the play was already sung since August 1, when they left the fourth work table with the government.
Confminin does not go alone: Fenamarpe supports the claim. The objective is clear: Tumbar the Supreme Decree No. 009-2025, which forces to process before Sucamec, before August 17, the authorization to use explosives and the contract with dusts or storage centers.
They will not return without decree
On Monday 1, after not reacing with the Premier Eduardo Arana, the Minister of Energy and Mines Jorge Montero and other authorities, the guild rose from the fourth dialogue table.
The Premier counterattacked: first he spoke of a statement, then offered a ministerial resolution that clarified that the term of August 17 still does not run because the Minem regional addresses have not delivered the documentation.
For miners, that is not enough.
“Confminin is waiting for the Government to issue a Supreme Decree so that it can endorse its statement and its directorial resolution (…). As long as they issue the Supreme Decree, Confemin will not return to the table,” Confemin’s legal advisor, Adolfo Valverde, told Peru21 on Sunday, Adolfo Valverde.
It is not, he said, a whim. “The Minem promised to bring a normative alternative (…). The decree has to leave the deadline for starting the procedures before Sucamec for the acquisition of explosives.”
The Executive also proposed to issue a ministerial resolution that requires that the norm is not yet applied due to lack of information from regional governments. The miners, however, do not move: they want a supreme decree.
Will there be mobilizations?
On Tuesday 12, Confemin will decide whether to call mobilizations throughout the country.
The Government will not yield
On August 1, when the miners withdrew from the fourth table, Arana was clear: it will not bend before the pressure. The fifth meeting will be this Monday, without confession or phenamarpe.
The exit of both guilds raised the tension, with threats of protests and blockages. The critical point: a term that, they claim, is impossible to comply with lack of dusty in the regions.
According to the president of Confemin, Máximo Franco, more than 50 thousand miners have already been excluded from the reinfill and another 20 thousand could be left out if the decree is not modified.
The confrontation is not new. In July, there were road blockages and clashes with the police. Then they also demanded to stop interdictions and return to those excluded from the reinfill.
But now, the battle front is another: the decree on explosives.
The Executive’s message is firm: it will not negotiate under pressure or blackmail.
On the other shore: informal miners insist that they will not return to the table without decree.
How will this new chapter end?
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