After the expansion of Reinfo for six months and with the possibility of increasing another six months, the prime minister Gustavo Adrianzen He criticized the measure and described it as a free pass to “do whatever they want.”
For the premier, the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo) did not fulfill its function of contributing, precisely to the formalization of the illegal and artisanal minersbut quite the opposite: he gave them a free rein.
“We see with concern the mobilization of up to 2 thousand miners carried out in Lima and, at the national level, 7.5 thousand more. Behind this, in addition to a conflict minerenvironmental and police, there is a political and social problem,” he acknowledged.
Then, the prime minister defended the Government of Dina Boluarte, recalling that “we sent the law on small and artisanal mining to Congress. And, in that law, there was no extension of the Reinfobecause it didn’t fit.”
“The mining It is extracting a lot of gold (from Madre de Dios, Putumayo Basin, Rinconada de Puno and Pataz). Huge amounts of money that are not taxed or accounted to anyone,” claimed the head of the cabinet of ministers.
Finally, Adrianzen He warned in RPP that “Reinfo became a kind of (enabling) to do whatever he wants: buy dynamite, cyanide, mercury, open a concentrator, generate traffic for dozens of dump trucks.”
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