There they go again. They are the same and the same as always. Those who claim to defend the rights of the communities openly oppose formal mining activity and insist on confronting the population with large extractive companies.
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A new alarmist campaign – one of the many in which the narrative that coexistence between agriculture and mining is not possible – is setting fire to the communities, warning, with inaccurate information, of ‘damages’ that the Tía project would bring. María—developed by Southern Perú Cooper Corporation—to the Tambo Valley.
One more maneuver against modern mining and that has behind it the Muqui Network, a conglomerate of NGOs that has always shown its rejection of Southern and other large mining corporations operating in the country and that has not even hesitated to ally itself with anti-mining leaders. of bad reputation to support protests in which violence was always present.
Two figures from Pedro Castillo’s management: Mirtha Vásquez (former premier) and Pedro Francke (former Minister of Economy), as well as José de Echave, who was Vice Minister of the Environment during Ollanta Humala, stand out in this organization.
Now, with a tremendous and apocalyptic spot, Red Muqui seeks to introduce to the population that the advance of the copper project will endanger the production of garlic and onion in the Tambo Valley, it even warns that in the not too distant future these would disappear from the markets. In the commercial they also ‘predict’ that lemons and mangoes will run out in supply centers if mining is not prevented from entering the San Lorenzo Valley, in Piura.
“Can you imagine going to the market and not finding lemons for your ceviche or garlic for lunch? Well, this is not a distant future, if we let mining advance…” thus begins the pessimistic announcement of an organization that under the mantle of sustainable development has shown its rejection of the most important mining projects.
Their social networks have also served to promote and endorse how much protest against extractive companies takes place in the country, especially if it is in rejection of Tía María, a project whose viability continues to be spoken out against.
A few days ago Red Muqui reported on a mobilization in Tambogrande, in Piura, against the El Algarrobo mining project, which has just been declared of interest by the Executive and which they also reject.
BAD JOINTS
In 2015, this NGO supported the anti-miner Pepe Julio Gutiérrez in the violent protests against Tía María, as concluded by the First Permanent Supranational Collegiate Criminal Court of Arequipa in its sentence against the leader, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for extortion, obstruction of public services and riots.
The broadcast of some audios allowed Gutiérrez, one of the promoters of the protests in the province of Islay, to be heard extorting and demanding “lentils in cash” (money) from the company Southern Perú in exchange for stopping the violent demonstrations.
In the condemnatory letter, Red Muqui is identified as one of the “non-governmental organizations that had been providing support to this protest.”
“Red Muqui is an information project of various NGOs in which several of them are openly opposed to modern mining. They cannot live without money from international cooperation and that is why they dedicate themselves to anti-mining campaigns,” says Iván Arenas, a specialist in mining issues.
The expert has also disqualified the spot issued by this NGO against Tía María.
“That campaign does not tell the truth. There is no danger. What is reported in that spot is false. It is so false that the same families in the valley are in favor and have not come out to protest,” Arenas told Perú21.
For the political analyst, if today the copper project has social legitimacy it is precisely because it has developed an alliance with local agriculture.
“This lemon campaign in Piura has only benefited a group of illegals who are now mining in an area where modern mining should be done that collaborates with agriculture,” explained the specialist.
At the beginning of last July, Southern Cooper Corporation announced the restart of activities to develop this mining project, located in the province of Islay.
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