Foreign Policy: Can South American Lithium Power Biden’s Battery Plans?
Washington needs lithium—but its history of intervention in the region complicates things. Kathryn Ledebur and Erika Weinthal Can South American Lithium Power Biden’s Battery Plans? The United States needs to…
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Can Bolivia’s Arce Manage to Contain New Social Protests? Demonstrations are a recurring strategy to obtain State concessions. Regional elites called the current strike with the governor Camacho. By law,…
AIN Director Discusses Internal Coca Grower Conflict in La Paz, Bolivia on La Razón Television
Kathryn Ledebur explained the long history of internal conflicts between La Paz coca growing groups, stemming from a U.S. imposed arbitrary division of “legal” and “illegal” farmers on August 8,…
CELS, The Andean Information Network, the Pro Human Rights Bolivia Association, the University Network for Human Rights and other organizations submitted two complaints to the United Nations denouncing the massacres at Sacaba (Cochabamba, November 15, 2019) and Senkata (El Alto, La Paz, November 19, 2019).
Bolivia: Complaint Submitted to the UN Denouncing the Sacaba and Senkata Massacres The political persecution, restriction, repression and criminalization of protests have not stopped but have grown worse in Bolivia.…