Peru Calms Interventionist Fears With Plan to Tap Copper Riches

  • Peru authorities devise a new approach to community relations
  • New government is looking to streamline ‘bureaucratic tangle’

     

Photographer: Diego Giudice/Bloomberg
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Peru’s new socialist government is working with the mining industry on a new approach to community relations and red tape to unlock more of the country’s huge mineral wealth.

“All companies are happy, so far,” Minister of Energy and Mines Ivan Merino said in an interview Saturday. “We all agree that all projects must be given a new social face, that we need a new pact.”