Lithium Mining in Bolivia

For more than a decade, the leftis government has been reluctant to involve foreign companies in lithium production. This reluctance stems from oblivia's historical experience of silver riches that did not stay with bolivia. In 20 18, after years of unmet production targets, the government signed a deal with a german firm for a joint venture to manufacture lithium hydroxide. But some aspects of this contract struck a lot of people as unfavorable to bolivia. So opposition to this deal ended up getting swept up in these mass protests against the former socialist president abel morales. Now there's a new president, louise arsey, who was evemoralis finance minister but he signalled