Peru cancels Canadian-owned mine after 6 protesters killed in clash

[Judi Lynn]

Peru cancels Canadian-owned mine after 6 protesters killed in clash
FRANKLIN BRICENO
LIMA, Peru— The Associated Press
Published Saturday, Jun. 25, 2011 9:24AM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Jun. 25, 2011 9:31AM EDT

Peru's government cancelled a Canadian-owned silver mine in the southern highlands Friday after six people were killed and at least 30 wounded when police fired on mostly indigenous protesters opposing the project.

Protesters also attacked a police station and a state bank in a second city.

The bloodshed occurred when police turned back protesters who tried to take over an airport near the city of Juliaca in Puno state, an area they have paralyzed with road blockades since May 9 in a bid to cancel the Santa Ana mine as well as a proposed hydroelectric project on the Inambari river.

The outgoing government of President Alan Garcia announced after leftist military man Ollanta Humala won the presidential election June 5 that it was scrapping the Inambari project. In April, it cancelled a huge copper mining project in another southern state after three protesters died in clashes with police.

Mining accounts for two-thirds of Peru's export earnings and has been the underpinning of a decade of robust economic growth, but the rural poor have benefited little from mining and complain it contaminates their water and crops.

More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/peru-cancels-canadian-owned-mine-after-6-protesters-killed-in-clash/article2075785/

[bemildred]

1. Awesome. nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. Good.

K & R

[cui bono]

3. I wish people here would do the same. n/t

[joshcryer]

4. Were the police jailed?

The link does not work.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Another site picked it up, here's the link:

http://freeinternetpress.com/story/Peru-Cancels-CanadianOwned-Mine-After-6-Protesters-Killed-In-Clash-30785.html