Puerto Chancay: Economic mega-success that comes with a high price?
In this article, ABI's staff member Fabricio Rodríguez and Jhan Carlos Ayquipa Mallqui examine the local challenges posed by the chinese-funded economic project:
The Chancay mega-port, part of China's "Belt and Road Initiative" and one of the country's largest infrastructure projects with an investment of 3.6 billion US dollars, is being celebrated as a pioneering project that will boost the trade between Asia and South America. But underneath the surface of this ‘progress’ lies a different reality. The affected population in Chancay sees the project critically: instead of the promised jobs and development, it poses social and environmental challenges. In conversations with local representatives, it becomes clear how the project is causing social conflicts, damaging the marine ecology, undermining the fishing industry and increasing the power imbalance between China and Peru.
The full article can be read on the website of Informationsstelle Peru e.V. (DE).