From fugitive to governor, a Peruvian mining foe rises again


  • World
  • Thursday, 15 Nov 2018

Walter Aduviri, governor-elect of the Puno region in southern Peru, talks during an interview in Lima, Peru November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Aquino

LIMA (Reuters) - For most of this year, Walter Aduviri, the governor-elect of Peru's Andean region of Puno, had been a fugitive.

The indigenous activist, 38, went into hiding after losing a sedition trial last year over deadly protests he led against Canadian mining company Bear Creek in 2011.

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