On Monday, the Peruvian government announced
that it had established a regional alliance with Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia
to coordinate the countries’ activities in their fights against illegal mining.
Peruvian High Commissioner for mining formalization, illegal mining
interdictions, and environmental remediation Antonio Fernández Jerí told
reporters, “As with drug trafficking, illegal mining is very large. As a
result, we need to look for strategic allies, and this is what we have done. We
have a technical working group with Ecuador, and with Bolivia and Colombia. We
need to complete the deal with Brazil.”
As part of the terms of the alliance, the various countries
are exchanging
data on illegal and informal mining, and best practices regarding mining
formalization and artisanal mining. Fernández explained that, despite these
recent advances, the countries still have not been able to carry out large
joint operations against illegal mining because “an identical normative
framework” still needs to be created.
In oil related news, the Federation of Native Communities rejected
the proposed extensions of Pluspetrol’s presence in the Peruvain Amazon. The
Peruvian government is auctioning off the rights to operate Lot 192, which for
years has been run by the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol. However, the
indigenous groups of the Tigre River have accused Pluspetrol of ignoring its
environmental and social responsibilities, and asserted that they would not
allows Pluspetrol to operate any longer in their territories.
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