A sign in the village reads: "400 YEARS OF GLORY IN POTOSI, MSX GET OUT OF HERE," commemorating the long history of the village and demanding the withdrawal of the company.
According to a report written by the Coordinating Committee of the Public Referendum on Cerro de San Pedro/San Xavier, residents voted 97-99 per cent against the mining project in Cerro de San Pedro in a statewide public referendum held in October 2006. The project moved ahead anyway.
