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Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru

By Juan Luis Dammert B.

Resource extraction—and especially mining—has powered Peru’s economic growth and driven the country’s social investment policies since the 1990s. Since its transition to democracy in 2001, Peru has seen its gdp more than double. However, the benefits of this growth haven’t been distributed equally, and increasing reliance on the extractive industry has brought rising levels of social unrest.

What explains this escalation in protests in a context of democracy and unprecedented abundance? And what are the implications of such protests for national politics in...

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