State management of the socio-environmental conflict of “Tía María” in Peru

Cornejo M.A.U. · Analisis Politico (2020)

Resumen

This article seeks to understand the state management of one of the most emblematic socio-environmental conflicts in Peru: the “Tía María” conflict. To do this, we asked ourselves how the State’s performance in managing the conflict was, and how it influenced the evolution of the conflict in a country that has more than 8,600 mining environmental liabilities. Among the main findings are: deficiencies in state management capacity; disarticulation and centralism of the government; loss of impartiality; State absent; lack of legal and administrative capacities; loss of capacity to channel demands of the population; loss of technical capacity to evaluate mining projects; poor management of the police force under a criminalization approach to protest.

Instituciones: Universidad Católica San Pablo