FACTORTIERRA

  The cards that Rio Blanco Cooper could play.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   A week delayed, on July 11 th , 2012, former Huancabamba Mayor Ramiro Ibáñez had a letter from Rio Blanco Cooper, the former Peruvian affiliate of the British Monterrico Metals, lately part of Zijin mining group. If the news surprised, it could must have forgotten some details of all this issue since FACTORTIERRA undisclosed it in August 2003.   But this Zijin approach seemed not to be casual but a skillful move that responded to the controversy’s developments and other details that happened around like the Conga Conflict. Then, to avoid a play with marked Chinese cards, here we have some cards that the Hong Kong fellas looked like to have in their deck.   The consultation? The Chineses expected that the fifth anniversary of the consultation in Ayabaca , Pacaipampa, and El Carmen de la Frontera spent like the tenth anniversary of Tambograndé’s – unseen. In that o...

Las cartas que Río Blanco Cooper pudo jugar.   Por Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   Con una semana de retraso, el 11 de julio de 2012, el entonces alcalde de Huancabamba, Ramiro Ibáñez recibió una carta de Río Blanco Coopper, la otrora filial peruana de la británica Monterrico Metals, posteriormente parte del grupo minero Zijin . Si la noticia causó sorpresa, pudo deberse a haber olvidado algunos detalles de todo este caso, desde que FACTORTIERRA lo revelara en agosto de 2003 .   Pero, este acercamiento de Zijin pareció no ser casual sino una hábil movida que respondió a los desarrollos de la controversia y otros detalles que   sucedieron en los alrededores, como el conflicto Conga. Entonces, para evitar un juego con naipes chinos marcados, aquí algunas de las cartas que la gente de Hong Kong pareció tener en su baraja:   ¿La consulta? Los chinos esperaban que el quinto aniversario de la consulta de Ayabaca , Pacaipampa y El Carmen de la Frontera ...

A new book is, actually, a guideline to reshape environmental conflicts and to sustain a non-violent life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SANTA CRUZ, California – Latin America seems to be the deadliest region in the world for defending the environment. Since 2012, Global Witness , "specifically ... has identified Brazil, Honduras, and Peru as places where this issue concentrates," University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC)'s Michael Wilson Becerril states in his doctoral thesis, now a book titled Resisting Extractivism , released through Vanderbilt University Press.   It took Wilson almost one year and a half of more than 250 interviews with mining executives and managers, community leaders, local people, journalists, academics, and anyone who had something to say, especially about four paradigmatic social conflicts caused by extractive industries in Northern Peru — mining , to be concrete.   "One-third of the world’s mining investment concentrates in Lat...