Maxima Acuña, a farmworker…,has won a legal case against the U.S. based Newmont Mining Corporation…known in Peru [as] Yanacocha. [Yanacocha]…sued Maxima for alleged land invasion in an attempt to expel her and her family from her property…, in order to pursue their…gold mining project,…Conga. Nevertheless, the Appeals Court of Justice of Cajamarca ruled in favor of Maxima…The case was not easily won and went through many appeals. In August of this year, a judge sentenced four members of Maxima’s family to two years and eight months of suspended imprisonment for not vacating the land. The judge also ordered the family to pay close to US$2,000 in penalties…[T]hese verdicts were overruled this Wednesday with the absolution of Maxima...During the legal process, Maxima repeatedly claimed to have been a victim of police aggression. In January of 2013, approximately 60 agents…invaded her property, and beat her up, her husband and her son…