Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say

Hundreds of Peruvian farmers living near the huge Las Bambas copper project plan a two-day protest on Sunday against a government program to spend a social fund on Internet connections in an area where many cannot read or write. As part of Swiss-based Xstrata’s concession deal to develop the southern Andes deposit, the company last year paid $45.5 million to a government-run fund to alleviate poverty in one of the country’s most impoverished regions.
[SOURCE: Reuters]
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