Peru’s Informal Miners Blockade the South’s Lifeline Highway as Arequipa Tensions Flare

PERU · MINING

Key Facts

—What happened: Informal miners blocked Peru’s Pan-American Highway South in the Arequipa region for four days this month.

—Where: The stoppage cut the road at Atico, in Camaná province, and at Chala, in Caravelí province.

—What they want: The miners demand an open-ended extension of the state’s formalisation registry, not the limited one Congress approved.