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1. Brazil produces its own lithium, it doesn’t need Bolivian lithium. Tesla was going there for that very simple and logical reason.
2. Morales signed over Uyuni to the Germans on a 70-yr contract, where lithium would not be industrialized in Bolivia. That led to his downfall with disenchanted Potosinos in the weeks leading up to his resignation.
3. Medina’s tweet (a tweet!) proposed a plant be installed in Uyuni to industrialize in Bolivia. On the surface if it were a real plan (it’s not!) could be more nationalist than what Morales signed onto to (and what was rejected by locals for not being nationalist enough!)
4. The US is a peanut player in the lithium industry- only 6% of total consumption; and majority of production also out of their hands. Need to accept US doesn’t control everything- it’s not the 90s in LA. China and Asia have much more influence.
5. Many automotive electric vehicle makers that are more important than Musk- again, Asian markets, those are the players buying up and investing in all the lithium in South America. The US is a shadow.
6. All this does is give Morales air time to avoid the serious mistakes the administration make with respect to lithium. See here: https://bit.ly/3f7Zc6V ">https://bit.ly/3f7Zc6V&q...
7. None of this refutes the idea that Musk is a capitalist imperialist thug. But all of it makes the much more propagandist claim completely oblivious to concrete reality in Bolivia and in the industry.
