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Humala's presidential inauguration is 28 July.
Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth spoke with Humala in Washington last week.
Some Humala excerpts:
"Peru has changed. It is no longer the Peru of 2005. It is the Peru of 2011, and it is different from when I campaigned in 2005. Obviously, we politicians have to adapt to these changes."
AND: "Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What we are stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty."
ALSO: "The state is paying for the mining companies; it [has been] doing a favor to the mining companies for the last 10 years, the equivalent of half the income tax the companies pay. The income tax is 30 percent of the profit. The state collects that amount, and half of that returns to the region. That is why we have 12 states that are rich, in the sense that they receive money from the state, another 12 states that are poor."
