Informal miners accuse Peruvian government of driving them into illegality | Video

Lima, Jun 14 (EFE) - The processes put in place in Peru to formalize mining, whose activity represents 10% of GDP, have led some of them to illegality, according to denounce workers in the sector amid the debate spurred by the death of 14 people in a clash for the control of a deposit.

"We have a formalization process that has no budget, we have norms 1100, 1107, persecutory, sanctioning norms that unfortunately have not been made according to the reality to do this mining activity, which has brought terrible corruption, illegal mining, and here we live in total disorder, chaos, we need the presence of the State. They have had operations here like Mercurio 19, but with so much repression, the people have become accustomed to it, like when you raise a child with only punishments, the more evil they become. Today they bomb machinery, then tomorrow they come back because these people need to work," Adrián Vilca Callata, president of the Federation of Miners of the Madre de Dios department, told Efe.

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Date: 14/06/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Source: EFE
Topic: Environmental issue
Politics
Type: Ready-to-use
Duration: 90 seconds
Reference: 7001175836
Relevance: Normal