Friday, November 13, 2020

Evo Morales: Lithium was the reason for the coup in Bolivia — teleSUR

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke about his government’s project to industrialize the nation’s lithium reserves during a press conference in Uyuni. Morales underlined that this initiative was suspended during the 11 months of the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez; nevertheless, he has indicated that newly elected president, Luis Arce, will now take it up again.

After considering that throughout history, humanity has always struggled to control natural resources, the indigenous leader stated that he had come to realize that “the West, that is, the industrialized countries, only want us Latin Americans to provide them with their raw material.”

Along this line, he brought up a message published in social networks by Tesla’s executive director, Elon Musk, in which he said, in an apparent ironic tone, that they would launch a coup wherever they wanted, in response to a user who reproached him for the U.S. has carried out a “coup d’état” in Bolivia to keep his lithium....
MR Online
Evo Morales: Lithium was the reason for the coup in Bolivia
teleSUR (Venezuela state sponsored, with funding from Nicaragua and Cuba)

1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/tesla-tsla-elon-musk-lithium-mining-rights-nevada

Those people watch too many Black Panther movies and think they are always sitting on the only deposit of vibranium so they will never have to work for a living...