Five families from the former population of Morococha (Junín) are still resisting in their homes to be evicted before the advance of the Copper Mine Toromocho, ten years after the expansion of this mining project of the Chinese company Chinalco was approved.
These families, which integrate around fifteen people, are the last inhabitants that remain in the former Morococha after the rest of the residents have settled in New Morococha, the urbanization built by the mining company to relocate the population.
This Friday is scheduled by the authorities the eviction of these families, according to the affected ones themselves In a press conference.
“In 2021, the exploitation goes from 117,000 to 170,000 tons of ore per day, that is why where the population is made, the expansion has been done”explained in the press conference the engineer Edwin Alejandro in relation to the movements of the mining company, and also ratified the bad housing conditions in which the inhabitants are.
“It is a critical situation. The families of the old city are still living in deplorable conditions, without access to basic services, water, electricity, etc.” Alejandro said, for whom it is the responsibility of the mining company and the State that have a decent life and resettlement. “
The resistance of the ancient brunette is firm despite the situation of extreme vulnerability that keeps them without access to basic services, as well as pollution and abandonment, and They denounce that they have never opposed themselves to move, but must be in accordance with the conditions that had been promised.
“The company was going to give employment to the resapted settlers,” Alejandro explained, “But they have not done so with the vast majority, so it is in an isolated situation. ”
The settlers, as is the case of Yolit Alejo, insist: “We would like to be relocated, but be a decent resettlement.”
Elvis Atachahua, another of the representatives of the families in resistance, He recalled how they received a first eviction notice on July 31, which they responded by opposition resolution to receive, on September 15, the news that had been rejected by unfounded.
On September 4, he and other representatives sat at a dialogue table in the city of Huancayo to treat, among others, the resettlement, within the framework of the law, life and decent housing, said Atachahua, and were waiting for an answer by the Ministry of Energy and Mines that, to date, has not occurred.
“We would like to ask for help, we have children, we are with the hours counted, we want a safe place,” The spokesman said, who said The new settlement, close to mining facilities, 4,600 meters above sea level, “is more dangerous”, since “there are heavy metals.”
