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Are there mining agents using the same methods for dismissing their debunkers?   by Liliana Alzamora Flores & Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru – An environmentalist leader denounces attempts against his environment and he doesn’t shut up despite the threats. He’s murdered and his killer leaves many clues to discover him, but by some reason –and there are documents proving it—his closest son in the fight ends becoming the top suspect of a criminal fact.   It’s the case of Arsecio Gonza Castillo but it’s also the same model of another happened in 2001 with the beloved Godofredo Garcia Baca . Was the same script followed up, or is there a criminal involvement for real on behalf of a justice that has been blocked?  Is it a vendetta?  But whose against whom?   Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011, four handmade miners were murdered near a minehole in Pueblo Nuevo de Santa Rosa Town, Suyo District , Ayabaca. It started to awake and the miner...

¿Hay agentes mineros que usan el mismo método para deshacerse de sus detractores?   Por Liliana Alzamora Flores y Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Piura – Un líder ambientalista denuncia atentados contra su entorno y no se calla a pesar de las amenazas. Es asesinado y el asesino deja muchas pistas para descubrirlo. Pero, por alguna razón –y hay documentos que lo prueban- su hijo más cercano en la lucha  termina siendo el principal culpable de un hecho luctuoso.   Es el caso de Arsecio Gonza  Castillo; pero, es el mismo modelo de otro ocurrido en 2001 con el recordado Godofredo García Baca . ¿Se siguió el mismo libreto o realmente hay una participación dolosa en nombre de una justicia que ha sido bloqueada? ¿Es un acto de venganza? Pero, ¿de quién contra quién?   El miércoles 2 de marzo de 2011, cuatro mineros artesanales fueron asesinados cerca de un socavón, en el caserío de Pueblo Nuevo de Santa Rosa, distrito de suyo , Ayabaca. Come...

The social issue caused by the handmade mining.   By Amaya Camacho Patty del Pilar; Mendoza Mondragón Fiorella Paredes Arcelles Grissel; Sandoval Torres Carlos Alberto; Troncos Merino Karina; Vargas Jiménez Blanca Christhel (School of Communication Sciences, UNP)   General Framework Currently in Peru, we see the mining, as well as it’s brought positive consequences for the economy, it’s caused different problems in the mining workers, the population living around, and the environment, because in all those people it’s seen their health affected as this activity is risky, and having no support from the government in any emergency case.   About the social consequences, the miners are going through serious health problems because many teenage workers die or are hospitalized every year due to injuries acquired while working. So, the people react to those problems breaking out demonstrations and strikes which they manifest not only they mistreat the farmer commu...