Informal miners in Peru demand Congress allow them to continue working

(20 Oct 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 20 October 2025
1. Various of informal miners wearing helmets marching towards the Peruvian Congress
2. Miner woman wearing the Peruvian flag marching, shaking her fist
3. Various of miners marching and carrying banners of different unions
4. Various of miners marching wearing blue helmets and playing trumpets
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Máximo Franco Becker, president of the National Confederation of Small-Scale and Artisanal Mining of Peru:
"All of Peru's miners are here to protest against this Congress, which to date has not resolved anything, has not passed any laws in our favour. In this regard, all of us miners have come to express ourselves so that once and for all a law is passed, an extension of the formalization process, so that we can continue working."
6. Woman miner marching
8. Miner marching wearing the Peruvian flag, written message with their demands
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Máximo Franco Becker, president of the National Confederation of Small-Scale and Artisanal Mining of Peru:
"We have come from all over Peru, from Madre de Dios, Puno, Arequipa, Ayacucho, La Libertad, Ancash, Huanuco, Huancavelica. All of us miners are here."
11. Police officers in riot gear standing next to congress in the streets near the Peruvian Congress
12. Various miners in front of Congress
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of small scale and artisanal miners on Monday arrived to Peru's Congress, demanding the representatives to extend a law that allows them to continue adding workers to the industry without being considered illegal.

While mining unions have made their demands heard since 2020 when such registry closed, the issue has been dragged over six presidencies, being only one of those leaders an elected official.

This is the first time the mining unions protest during the administration of the recently appointed president José Jerí, who took office after his predecessor, Dina Boluarte, was ousted by Congress.

Mining a vital industry for the country but most of it goes unregulated.

If adhering to the large scale, regulated industry, the miners' protesting Monday would need to comply with stricter norms.

It would also mean threatening an already working industry to a standstill, at at time when the new government is already struggling with country's economic woes.

Mining in Peru is one of the main and most important economic products in terms of exports and GDP.

Peru's mining exports showed a key increase during the first half of 2025, according to the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE).

AP Video shot by Cesar Barreto

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