Peru peasants take miners hostage to demand jobs [View All]

[struggle4progress]

03 Aug 2006 22:31:31 GMT
Source: Reuters

... One farmer died in the protest on Wednesday night at the mine in northern Peru when about a hundred people forced their way into the mine complex, clashing with police.

Later on Thursday, a spokesman for Denver-based Newmont confirmed two Yanacocha employees had been taken by protesters after the demonstrators were cleared away by police.

"They have not been released and we do not know where they are," Randy Engel told Reuters in New York.

He said about 100 people from the local community of Combayo had organized a protest demanding work contracts with Minera Yanacocha for the Carachugo mining project, which employs over 120 local villagers and has work contracts with four community businesses from Combayo ...

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