Activities have not been paralyzed in the Tambo valley, in the province of Islay; despite the 72-hour preventive strike called by leaders from today, October 21 to 23, against the Tía María mining project.
He journalistic medium Cablevisión Mollendothrough your account Facebookreported that andInterprovincial transportation and buses operate normally. Traffic is fluid in the Boquerón sector, Deán Valdivia district. The situation is similar in the La Curva sector.
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In the videos from the area, a large number of workers and the general population can be seen moving normally to their workplaces and so on.
However, there are some educational centers that suspended classes for fear of violent protests. It is the case from school 40464 Virgen de Fátima, which did not open its doors today.
Users, through Facebook, expressed the opinion that the stoppage could not be effective due to the potato harvest season.
The measure would cause farmers to suspend the potato harvest, one of the main products of this season. However, it had been reported that a measure taken to avoid harm to the local and foreign public is the accelerated harvest, days before the strike.
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Among the arguments they maintain for the opposition of the mining project are: Tía María does not have environmental certification, there is no current environmental impact study and the destruction of agriculture in Cocachacra.
This strike is in response to the announcement of the beginning of construction of the mining project. Óscar González Rocha, executive president of the mining company Southern Perú, He stated that the construction will begin in 2025 and will last 2 years.
It should be noted that the Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho, He maintained that the Tía María copper project, located in the province of Islay, in Arequipa, has all the permits to operate since 2019.
