Claudio Cáceres, Manager of Legal Affairs of The Bambasmaintained that the stoppage of operations at the mine has caused the region of Apurimac stop receiving more than S/ 100 million.
“During these 35 days of stoppages, the Apurímac region has stopped receiving more than S/ 100 million; we are talking about 1,400 small and medium-sized entrepreneurs who are harmed by this situation”Said the manager in an interview with Successful.
Along these lines, he stressed that there are 9,000 workers of the mining company and 75,000 families who are affected by this situation; Taking into account that “Las Bambas represents 72% of the region’s GDP.”
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On the other hand, Claudio Cáceres pointed out that one of the conditions for dialogue to take place is that the company be allowed to resume all economic activities in the area.
“One of the conditions to be able to re-establish dialogue is that the Huancuire community, which today remains within our property, can leave it, so that the conditions are met to be able to restart economic activity”manifests.
Agreements with the communities
The Las Bambas representative recalls that on April 14 the company’s facilities were invaded by the Fuerabamba and Huancuire communities. In this sense, he affirms that the mining company has complied with the agreements made with the communities.
“A resettlement agreement was signed with the Fuerabamba community, and as part of this deal we committed to carrying out 171 projects in favor of the community. Later, these agreements increased to 264, and of that total, Las Bambas has fulfilled and 80% of the commitments are being executed”, Caceres says.
The director assures that all this information has been accredited to the PCM and the Minem. In addition, there are 55 commitments that are scheduled to be executed in the coming years.
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In the case of the Huancuire community, Las Bambas signed a purchase contract in 2013, and as compensation they were paid S/ 122 million. However, in 2017 the community indicated that it was unaware of this document.
“Then, an extrajudicial transaction was signed, closing any dispute related to the sale and clarifying that the acquired area was 2,032 hectares. For that transaction, S/ 100 million more was paid. Today the community intends to ignore that 2017 transaction again “, Claudio Cáceres points out.
According to the Legal Affairs Manager of Las Bambas, these are basically the reasons why the communities have made this decision and why the company has had to stop its operations.
