Thousands of small-scale miners in Peru continue to protest for a third day in front of Congress in Lima, demanding an extension of the deadline to join a mining registry that would formalize their activity and bring them into compliance with the law. "We are asking for an extension of the formalization process for another two years," says Wilder Mayta, 41, who arrived in Lima from Sandia, on the Bolivian border. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES