Peru: Elected By The Left, Ruling With The Right

Peru is and will be a mining country.  This is a death knell for the environment, as a threat not only to the local population in the mountains where the mines are, but for the entire planet.  The Peruvian Andes have now remained without snow for more than two decades, while glacially irrigating the desert on the coast, changing their ecosystem.  The mine generates foreign currency and leaves environmental liabilities that have become a big problem in the Cajamarca region.  In the month of September, 2011 alone, there were 90 socio-environmental conflicts related to mining, and tensions exploded in the month of November when the population began to feel that nothing was coming of their prior demands for the new government.
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