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Bolivia's military-appointed President Jeanine Anez brandishing a Bible as she harangues a crowd. The country is in talks over reviving German rights to exploit lithium reserves needed for electric cars, which overthrown president Evo Morales had scrapped
GERMANY is set to press Bolivia’s president to revive a lithium deal, just a month after the previous incumbent Evo Morales was ousted by a US-backed “fascist coup.”
German companies manufacturing electric cars in Europe need access to the South American country’s massive lithium reserves and had struck an agreement that would have allowed ACI Systems Germany (Acisa) to industrialise the sector.
But Mr Morales scrapped a decree allowing the German firm, in partnership with state-owned lithium company YLB, to exploit 21 million tonnes of the natural resource at the Uyuni salt lake.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
ROGER McKENZIE shines a light on conflicts in Sudan and Nigeria, where Western powers are intent on laying claim to valuable resources necessary for market dominance
