FACTORTIERRA

One year later, FACTORTIERRA undisclosed its internal reports about the popular consultation of Piura Andes in September 2007, and it found some details have not solved yet.   By Liliana Alzamora Flores & Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   AYABACA, Peru – What difficult is logging on the Internet at this place! There are long lines! Some journalists booked the PC’s for hours.   Saturday, September 15th, 2007 – There was a press conference at 19:00 local time, in Casa del Campesino. The briefing was directed by Mario tabra who presented some slides, Farmers Patrol’s leader Magdiel Carrión, the attorney quique Rodríguez . They answered the questions much objective proving to be well informed.   They denounced that Peru’s Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo distorted the information. Attorney Rodríguez reported that Alejandro Eguren Anselmi, brother of Piura and Tumbes Archbishop, were not already a Minera Majaz’s manager, but he has bought over than 50% of shares in ot...

  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...