In Peru and outside, the clash has been portrayed as emblematic of the escalating and inevitable tension between the global markets’ demand for natural resources and the environmental and political rights of the communities where those commodities are produced............
Ultimately, even assuming the environmental benevolence of natural resource extraction companies (OK, admittedly a huge assumption), the responsibility of providing the basic public, social services to the poor rural communities where natural resource extraction activities often take place is that of a national government.
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/10/perus-resource-state-curse/
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