As revealed Peru21the NGO conglomerate Red Muqui has been carrying out a media campaign to prevent the advancement of the mining project Aunt Marywhich plans to create 9,000 new jobs during its construction stage and 4,800 more permanently for the population of the Tambo Valley. They spread false and alarmist messages, stating that the initiative of the company Southern Peru Cooper Corporation would endanger the production of garlic and onion, with both products disappearing from the local market in the future.
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In this regard, Carlos Galvezformer president of the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE), pointed out that the characters behind this campaign “are the same extortionists as always, who talked about the lemon problem in Tambogrande (Piura) saying that we were not going to have ceviche in Peru for life. However, they say nothing that this project fell into the hands of illegals. “They have turned Tambogrande into an environmental disgrace.”
He denied that Tía María is going to affect the production of garlic and onions in the Tambo Valley. “They want to misinform. Why don’t they say that today and forever, from the 44 geysers (type of thermal spring that expels boiling water) that there are in the Tambo River, we have water with arsenic and boron that contaminates rice and olives? , he questioned in conversation with this newspaper.
Gálvez indicated that Red Muqui “lives on donations, on the region, on extortion”and said that the characters behind this organization, such as the former premier Mirtha Vasquez and the former minister Pedro Franckeboth former officials of the former coup leader Pedro Castilloand Jose de Echave“they should speak out against illegal mining and not formal mining.” In that sense, he asked himself: “Why don’t they do it? Because they are looking for their little lentils.”
“Have you heard these characters say a word against illegal mining? Have you gone to Madre de Dios to see what the environment is like? Have you been to Pataz? Have they spoken out about human trafficking, about the human rights of the people who work in those mousetraps exploited by illegal miners? No. So, “With what moral authority are they going to talk about a formal operation now?”he continued.
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Meanwhile, the journalist Melanio Valdezdirector of Ilo magazine Coles Pointand who knows the idiosyncrasy of the Tambo Valley, pointed out that he sees “despair” of the Muqui Network, an organization that “has done a lot of damage to the country,” and that it is false that products are going to be scarce with the advance of Tía María.
“When someone makes those types of comments, it means they are on their last legs. Since the project is moving forward, they say these aberrant things out of desperation,” he told Peru21.
Valdez said that More than 20 farmers associations in the valley are working on the Southern project and that “those who oppose are 1 or 2, and they are not even farmers. They come from Arequipa and say they are from the federation of I don’t know what. In other words, it is pure ideology and people understand it.”
“I would tell you that 85% or 90% of the population agrees with the project. The only bad thing is that those who shout are few and the rest remain silent. If we talk about fear, I would tell you that it is 20% of the population, because the rest want to work. There are 400 local people who are already working,” he concluded.
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