Sergio Bitar, nonresident senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue and former Chilean minister of mining, education and public works: “The case of the Las Bambas mining company deserves special attention in all copper-producing countries, as it helps to anticipate future conflicts. For a decade, the reality has become much more complex. First, global changes will demand more and more copper in order to electrify the planet and respond to twin challenges—green and digital. Second, national changes require a response to social and environmental sustainability. Third, the awareness and power of Indigenous communities, and international pressure to protect them, have expanded. Conflicts are multiplying among citizens and the environment, communities and companies, central and local authorities, between ministries, among politicians who argue over social networks, and amid an absent state and executives who are incapable of understanding communities…”