It’ll be a fun day to dunk on @elonmusk but the joke is on all of us. In a world where the US respected and supported its southern neighbors as members of a joint project of the uplift of humanity, the Bolivian people would be happy to sell us lithium and whatever else. Instead.. https://twitter.com/katearonoff/status/1318150430858371072

we’ve engaged in 2 centuries of repression, coups, and support of the most vicious tyrants. So now China — a tyrannical government in its own right — will be in better position for a crucial partnership with Bolivia. Our cruelty and racism is blowing back on us.

Also this only happened because the Bolivian people shut down La Paz and forced the government to hold elections that they had been postponing endlessly. Happened even faster than I expected https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1287149521491959808