Conflicts between police and illegal miners, working on state -owned facilities, and had blocked a road in southern Peru, protesting the terms set by the government to be legalized, resulted in losing his life at least one man and injuring another twenty.

Workers in gold and copper mines excluded two portions of the Pan -American avenue in the provinces Step to make it legal to exploit small deposits.

Class enforcement forces used tear gas to dismantle the protesters, who retaliated by flying stones. According to the Peruvian press, the man who lost his life was a taxi driver, waiting for the road to the village of Tsala to open. According to police, seven members of the injured are among the injured.

The Reinfo Register (Registro Integal de Formalización Minera) was created in 2016, as part of the efforts to combat illegal minerals – but in practice, very few miners entered it. Small mines are demanding an extension of the deadline indefinitely.

According to prosecutors, in Peru, the country ranked third in the world in copper production and second in gold production in Latin America, at least 300,000 miners work irregularly.