The bank has met all traceability requirements, allowing it to purchase and refine more than 18 metric tons since May 2023.

Bolivia is investing in lithium production despite challenges such as high altitude, logistical constraints, and environmental concerns.

But more than the arrest of the two union leaders was involved: the miners were in open defiance of the government in La Paz. And their leader, Juan Lechin, 50, Bolivia’s far-leftist Vice ...

Bolivian miners are renowned for their labor activism, and migrants soon organized into syndicates, which facilitated their ability to acquire land. Among them was a young man named Evo Morales ...

Nor did he care. He had made his point. Simón Patiño’s tin miners in Bolivia, whose cause Galarza had championed (TIME, Dec. 28), were back at work,* producing needed metal for the Allied war ...

“Hochschild was the Schindler of Bolivia—except not to the Bolivians.” Pulacayo’s mines were shut down by the government in 1959, throwing the miners out of work. The town’s demise was ...

1903 - Bolivia loses the rubber-rich province of Acre to Brazil. 1920 - Rebellion by indigenous peoples. 1923 - Revolt by miners is violently suppressed. 1932-35 - Bolivia loses territory to ...

Bolivia is stepping up efforts to tap the world’s biggest lithium deposits, readying deals with new investors to build processing plants despite low prices and growing opposition from lawmakers ...

Bolivian President Luis Alberto Arce has affirmed that the South American country has attached much importance to the ...