Informal miners lift blockades along Peru’s key copper route, protest leader says

Informal miners in Peru have paused their more-than-two-week-long protest that blocked a major copper transit route, one of the protest leaders, Luis Huaman, told Reuters on Tuesday.

He said they planned to suspend the protest at least through Friday, while continuing to press the government for more favorable regulations for informal mining.

(By Marco Aquino and Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Kylie Madry)

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