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Andean Group - April 2010 (ISSN 1741-4466)
POLITICS & MINING: Government cedes ground in face of mining protests
The government was compelled to backpedal on two mining initiatives
in the space of two weeks this month after protesters in southern Peru blocked
the Pan-American highway. Although President Alan García fulminated against the
protesters as “infamous minorities who practice road terrorism," his government
caved in to their demands, setting a dangerous precedent in the process: there
could well be an increase in such protests in the run-up to municipal and
regional elections in October.
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